Timeline for Were people allowed to smoke on TV back in the 1960s to 1970s?
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| May 31 at 0:53 | comment | added | user104290 | @Valorum "TV doesn't always accurately represent reality" and, likewise, what may-or-may-not apply to "US network telly" does not necessarily apply to the other countries. One should try to be less parochial in an international forum. Nowhere in the OP's post is there any mention of "US telly"... | |
| Apr 23 at 12:31 | comment | added | Hobbamok | @Valorum yes but reality-like formats usually stick closer to reality (ESPECIALLY in the mundane, everyday cultural norms/usual habits) unless there is a significant reason for divergence. You don't see Late Night Show hosts bow to each other as a greeting for every guest. No, they greet in the culturally normal ways because no thought is spent on that | |
| Apr 22 at 12:17 | comment | added | Valorum | @Hobbamok - TV doesn't always accurately represent reality. | |
| Apr 22 at 8:43 | comment | added | G_B | @SimonCrase According to this timeline, Australian states were increasing provisions for non-smoking spaces on public transport between 1900 and 1920, with a ban on broadcast advertising coming in 1972-76. | |
| Apr 22 at 8:13 | comment | added | Simon Crase | Interestingly there was some stigma associated with smoking. In New Zealand, smokers were segregated into separate sections on trams, buses, and trains during the 50s through 70s. This cartoon (probably NSFW) suggests that the same thing happened in Australia. | |
| Apr 22 at 8:07 | comment | added | Hobbamok | @Valorum exactly what Barmar already said. OPs question is only a question because of the societal context of how we now see and treat cigarettes/tobacco. In the 60s/70s context such a question would be somewhat absurd even because of course they would smoke on TV, why would they have such an unreasonable (at the time) discrepancy between lived reality and TV? Especially when there was NO motivation to do so and a lot of reasons to smoke on TV | |
| Apr 21 at 23:06 | comment | added | Barmar | @Valorum Smoking had no negative social status associated with it until the 80's. There's no reason why it would have been banned anywhere. Cigarette commercials were banned on TV in 1971, before that they were everywhere. | |
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| Apr 21 at 20:52 | comment | added | Valorum | The question wasn't about smoking in general, it was about smoking on TV. Note that there are many things you can do in public in real life that you can't/couldn't do on US network telly, like saying the word "toilet" | |
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| S Apr 21 at 20:41 | history | answered | Simon Crase | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
