Jun 14, 2026 · 5 min · 7 segments
We all know that smoking is stupid, but do you know what’s even stupider? Smoking indoors... and people used to smoke inside anywhere they wanted. This episode will answer questions like: Is…
It would just smell very strong, like petrol strong, and just would not be nice.
Really smoky.
Sometimes, like, it's just sort of hard to breathe.
Especially if you have asthma.
Yeah, like me.
It would be, like, an asthmatic's worst nightmare.
They probably didn't know.
They didn't have the research that we have now, so they wouldn't have known that that was bad.
Yeah, they didn't have the knowledge that it can really hurt and damage people.
The people around you.
Yeah.
But by the mid-'70s, all that indoor smokiness started to bug some people who didn't smoke.
They called for non-smoking areas to be created so that they could escape the stink.
It would just smell very strong, like petrol strong, and just would not be nice.
Really smoky.
Sometimes, like, it's just sort of hard to breathe.
Especially if you have asthma.
Yeah, like me.
It would be, like, an asthmatic's worst nightmare.
They probably didn't know.
They didn't have the research that we have now, so they wouldn't have known that that was bad.
Yeah, they didn't have the knowledge that it can really hurt and damage people.
The people around you.
Yeah.
But by the mid-'70s, all that indoor smokiness started to bug some people who didn't smoke.
They called for non-smoking areas to be created so that they could escape the stink.
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