But that's literally my point! It was OK to smoke because it was
morally acceptable to at the time, even though like alcohol it's a drug. A DEADLY one at that. Today it isn't very acceptable so now you can't smoke at all at DL ironically. But that's all we're talking about, basically attitudes and norms
of that time.. Drinking was considered more of a no-no back then. Today, it isn't. There were plenty of places you couldn't drink back then that you can now. When I was younger for example, most movie theaters I went to never served alcohol. But today, every theater I go to (or use to
) not only serve alcohol, many now have actual bars you can drink at before the movie starts and becoming more and more popular in L.A.
And we also know a lot more places like fast food restaurants don't serve alcohol today because of all the outdated prohibition laws that still makes it hard for certain businesses to sell alcohol. Why does McDonalds sell alcohol in parts of Asia and Europe but not America? I looked it up, because they make it extra hard in America to even serve alcohol even if they wanted to, which clearly they do because they have no issue selling it in countries where they can.
But we all know America is still a prudish country in many ways since we have literally the highest drinking age law in the world, but that's for another thread.