What does canned food smell like, though? How about cigarettes and low-quality plastic products for the 60s.
Before 1900: Shit smell gradually replaces cigarette smell the further you go back, peaking in intensity sometime around the black death (in Europe). Actually, coal maybe needs to be in there somewhere.
Interesting, I hadn’t heard that. Was it taking over from other forms of tobacco, maybe? Cigarettes definitely are easy to manufacture and smoke, compared to the other ones I can think of.
I forget where I read it - or it might have been in a documentary. In the US smoking was mainly a rural or cowboy thing until WWI. It saw another big surge after WWII.
Maybe related, marijuana use was also mostly a rural thing until the “reefer madness” ad campaign misrepresented it as a big-city evil, which backfired and popularized it.
What does canned food smell like, though? How about cigarettes and low-quality plastic products for the 60s.
Before 1900: Shit smell gradually replaces cigarette smell the further you go back, peaking in intensity sometime around the black death (in Europe). Actually, coal maybe needs to be in there somewhere.
Even though tobacco came from the Americas, cigarettes weren’t all that popular in the US until WWI when they were included in soldiers’ rations.
Interesting, I hadn’t heard that. Was it taking over from other forms of tobacco, maybe? Cigarettes definitely are easy to manufacture and smoke, compared to the other ones I can think of.
I forget where I read it - or it might have been in a documentary. In the US smoking was mainly a rural or cowboy thing until WWI. It saw another big surge after WWII.
Maybe related, marijuana use was also mostly a rural thing until the “reefer madness” ad campaign misrepresented it as a big-city evil, which backfired and popularized it.
Metal and stale.
And absolutely yes with the coal.