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What nostalgic thing do you think should stay in the past?
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Smoking. Black and white movie stars of the 40s and 50s made it look elegant and sophisticated, but you can't smell a movie. And I don't want to smell cigarette smoke.
I miss the smoking indoors. As a child who would attend political events with my parents, it gave rooms a misty haze of mystery and intrigue. Plus, you could always tell where the real political tables were by the density of the fog hanging over the table.
When people think men look "cool" smoking in those (which honestly, who thinks that anymore), they never think of the following 40 years. When I think of smoking now it isn't the movies, it's grandma and grandpa hacking and coughing, their sickly yellow walls of their house permanently stained with nicotine, and low gravely voices. Maybe you think you look cool for 5 years or so, and then it's all downhill