[September 27th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer in Los Angeles asks, "Why is it that men who don't object to other women smoking grow angry if their own wives smoke?" (i.redd.it)

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[-] Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

These posts are such a cool way to know how things were back then. Didn't know people knew smoking was bad for example! Also expected one really sexist answer

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm also surprised at the lack of sexism. I expected society to be way more patriarchical back then

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It is nice to see some real examples of historical attitude, rather than the sweeping generalizations about how we’re the first decent generation emerging from a pit of darkness that is everything before 2010.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to my grandmother (born 1907 and asked long ago), it was a little like sugar in the 1970s: it’s clearly not good for you, but it hadn’t been connected with cancer or significant diseases to the degree that a random individual would know about it.

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