Don't Smoke! - Laser Time #341

You don't need to be all that old to remember a time when the world was a lot more friendly to tobacco, smokers, and their related advertising. But the backlash was fairly swift, so folks our age got to live through a rather insane wave of pervasive attitudes towards smoking simultaneously with a growing ubiquity of anti-smoking campaigns. These were confusing times! So in this episode we're looking at when, where, and how fast attitudes changed regarding smoking, as well as how the cigarette companies attempted to stave off their inevitable decline