Smoking at the cinema

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Jellytots

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Illegal in most countries now I think. But does anyone here remember when you could do this?

Its really irritating listening to whispers and packets rustling. But have you ever had a movie ruined by people smoking?

flicks, then an orange flame, then smoke
 
I would rather see the lingering remains of smoke in the cinema, then have to listen to the infuriating sound of rustlerustlerustle crunchcrunchcrunch munchmunchmunch from noisy drinkers and eaters :mad:

I dont mind people eating in the cinema...but only when its soft, non-noisy food...not popcorn, and peanuts, and pretzels that all make a fudgin noise!
 
I'm not old enough, smoking has never been legal during my cinema going life, well never come across someone smoking in a cinema... :p

It should stay like that too. If you can't go an hour or two without smoking, you have a problem. :p
 
I feel quite the opposite. Having smoke obscuring the screen would be a hell of a lot more irritating to me than the relatively quiet sounRAB of people eating. Maybe i've just been lucky, but people eating in the cinema has never really been an issue for me, i've certainly never had an experience where i've thought "god! stop eating" because someone is crunching or opening bags.
 
I fully agree with this. I often see people stood outside restaurants smoking, and I think "Can't you eat an entire meal without having to go for a smoke"? There must be better things for people to waste their money on



I also have never have a "god! stop eating" experience, but that may be because I'm the one always eating during the movie :p No one has ever complained, though, so I can't be too loud
 
I remember when you could smoke in cinemas and then there was a while when you could only smoke in half the cinema (left or right, I'm not sure now)

I can remember going to the cinema as a kid and when the film got boring (ie, the "talky bits"), I'd get distracted and stare up at the layers of swirling smoke through the light from the projector.

And double features were the norm. I remember feeling cheated when they stopped.

And there was an usherette who showed you to your seat and had a torch to shine in the face of anyone who dared to speak. The usherette might also have been the person who sold ice cream, ice lollies and cartons of Kia-Ora from her tray during the intermission between the two films. The queues were usually forming up the aisle before the first film even finished!
 
I remember seeing Forest Gump (in German) at a German cinema while on a school exchange trip in '93, I was astonished to find that you were allowed to smoke in the theatre, I'd never seen anything like it at home!

Being a rebellious teenager I took my chance and puffed away through the whole film, it helped my brain relax as I tried to understand what the hell was being said in the film.
 
I remember smoking large amounts of spliff during late night kung-fu screenings (and to a lesser extent during 'normal' screening times). It didn't used to smell as bad as modern gear so never got any hassle :cool:
 
I'm old enough to remember having a good old smoke in the cinema, then when attitudes started to change they introduced the hilarious system of only having smoking on either the left or right hand side of the auditorium, as if the smoke wouldn't drift over to the non-smoking side!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA2Yy3sZq9M

Go to 2'45" on that to see an example of the warnings they used to give.
 
I remember it,and smoking on buses and in shopping centres too
Non smokers were never actually bothered about it - until someone told them they were supposed to be !!!
 
At least greedy bastarRAB aren't trying to poison you where you sit. Just kill themselves with junk food, but that's okay, just evolution in action, as they say.

Smokers are more than welcome to poison themselves - in fact I actively encourage them to do so - just don't try to take me with you.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
Whilst it's been banned on most buses for an age, there was an independet company called Black Prince that had a few buses in LeeRAB, and they let you somke on the top deck till just a few years back.
It was great, you felt like a naughty sschoolkid.

Saying that, I'm glad I quit.
 
Once, (about 10 years ago) I was on a bus (and if I remember right just before xmas) and the driver turned round to us on the bus and invited us to smoke on the bus:eek:. there was only about six of us on there and we all pulled out our fags and had a smoke - it was really bizarre, but also quite christmasy in a Dickensian sort of way. :o

But I remember being able to smoke in the cinema and miss it terribly, that's why I prefer to watching films at home - sometimes you just need a fag to get you through a film, well I do. :D
 
i remember the bloke next to me burning a hole in my crimpleen trousers with his cigarette during my very first screening of "Star Wars"

my leg was burned and i was trying to get my dad's attention, but he was too busy leering at Princess Leia to notice the plasticcy-crust-surrounded aperture in my trousers and thigh :(
 
It wasn't onlt between films. They used to have an intermission in the main film to sell you junk food too. I've got 'Oliver!' on VHS and it has the intermission in the film, I think because it has a score, and they wanted to give you the complete film.
 
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