guyrocket,
guyrocket avatar

I wonder how many places burned down before they stopped the pre-lit part.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Probably no more than would have burned down anyway from everyone smoking inside them.

nilloc,

They had incinerators in women’s bathrooms for burning sanitary pads, before tampons came around.

HolidayGreed,

Safety was their number one priority, which is why they used plenty of asbestos inside each machine.

humorlessrepost,

And in the filters.

PugJesus,
PugJesus avatar

How absolutely insane. I love it.

Rocketpoweredgorilla,
@Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca avatar

I’d bet Snoop Dogg would love one of these.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Wouldn’t he prefer one that dispensed lit joints?

Rocketpoweredgorilla,
@Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca avatar

I’m sure that’s the first thing he’d fill it with. His personal joint roller would probably be able to go on vacation once in awhile too.

Anticorp,

What a time to be alive!

DragonTypeWyvern,

Things are looking up! This Great Depression is going to ebb any day, and then it’s smooth sailing for humanity!

PiJiNWiNg,

My first thought was the little Black Cat firecrackers, which sounds way more fun than pre-lit smokes

Cqrd,

Pre-lit firecrackers, how chaotic

General_Shenanigans,

Somebody told me once that cigarette paper contains what is basically gunpowder, which is why it burns continually and makes it burn quickly when smoking it. I don’t know if that’s true, but maybe there’s a connection there.

TheKMAP,

“Have you seen this”

10/10 marketing effort

Life really was that easy back then huh (except for that whole racism thing)

Dark_Arc,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

except for that whole racism thing

And great depression thing … and then the world war 2 thing … and the Spanish flu and world war 1 only about a decade before.

You can imagine a future person looking at a video of someone with a fidget spinner and thinking “life really was easy back then.”

Every generation has different luxuries and problems.

TheKMAP,

Guess you don’t have to try hard to sell a product if people are addicted to it, be they cigarettes or fidget spinners.

Pandantic,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

Strangely enough, I almost never see fidget spinners anymore, and I work with kids. I do keep having to pick cigarette butts off the ground tho (not from the kids).

Screemu,
@Screemu@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Some corp: “Nobody wants to smoke anymore.”

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

My daughter has dozens of the things, but she also has ADHD and anxiety and they help her focus.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I dunno… I can look back at native Americans before whitey showed up or further back to hunter-gatherers and think they had it pretty easy compared to now. They didn’t spend 8+ hours a day, every day working at a thing that’s meaningless; they didn’t have mortgages or bills; they didn’t have traffic; or ads, or any number of the dumb ass things we’ve made harder in the effort of making things easier.

I’d take a lack of medicine and the possibility of being eaten by wild animals over all the modern bullshit that makes it impossible to just live.

FlorianSimon,

No, you probably would not.

Got_Bent,

I can’t quite tell because the picture pixelizes quickly when zoomed, but that cigarette looks like a mostly smoked butt.

notfromhere,

My guess is she held it up for the picture not just got it from the machine.

hamid,
SatansMaggotyCumFart,

It reminds me of an aloo gobi vending machine I saw the other day.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think it is because it would have been unfiltered back then.

Got_Bent,

I did consider that. I think she’s just got most of it hidden in her hand somehow

MxM111,
MxM111 avatar

The shade from her finger makes it appear shorter. The full length can be judged by the image on the machine.

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