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hliyanyesterday at 3:38 PM3 repliesview on HN

I remember this. Ashtrays were practically part of the furniture (especially coffee tables), even if you didn't have a smoker at home.


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pavlovyesterday at 4:19 PM

Elementary school children would make ashtrays as gifts for Father's Day.

If dad didn't smoke, surely he had guests who did.

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redwall_hpyesterday at 7:49 PM

I vaguely remember living room chairs with built in ash trays (like how some have cup holders now).

And in the late 90s, being on a plane and the chairs had a metal folding door on the armrest that exposed an ash tray. Smoking on planes was already gone or going away, but the hardware lingered for quite some time.

SoftTalkeryesterday at 4:06 PM

As was passing out cigarettes and cigars to all the guests, didn't see this so much in the USA but very common in Europe even into the late 1990s.