{"id":3965,"date":"2016-10-14T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2016-10-14T19:21:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:21:31","slug":"ah-the-good-ol-days-when-people-really-smoked-around-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3965","title":{"rendered":"Ah, the good ol&#8217; days, when people really smoked around babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3966\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?attachment_id=3966\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Make-America-Great-Again.jpg?fit=632%2C353&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"632,353\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Pierre&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1476446200&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"make-america-great-again\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Make-America-Great-Again.jpg?fit=474%2C264&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-3966\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Make-America-Great-Again.jpg?resize=474%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"make-america-great-again\" width=\"474\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Make-America-Great-Again.jpg?resize=500%2C279&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Make-America-Great-Again.jpg?resize=100%2C56&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Make-America-Great-Again.jpg?resize=200%2C112&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Make-America-Great-Again.jpg?w=632&amp;ssl=1 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I normally try to stay clear from partisan politics here, but here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iagreetosee.com\/portfolio\/make-america-great-again-song\/#.V_mCpAsQE-Y.facebook\">funny video<\/a> from MoveOn.org about Trump&#8217;s campaign slogan of &#8220;Make America Great Again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the video, two women dressed in 1950s pearls and hoop skirts sing about the good ol&#8217; days of sexual harassment, domestic abuse, segregation, date rape and the days, &#8220;before we even knew that gays had rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What cracked me up is later in the video, they&#8217;re both smoking around a baby. Yeah, the good ol&#8217; days, when millions of parents smoked around their kids and gave their kids asthma, ear infections and upper respiratory infections from their omnipresent secondhand smoke. You youngins today might not believe it, but this was absolutely normal back then. It just boggles my mind today what people did to their kids 50, 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I honestly can&#8217;t remember the last time I actually witnessed someone smoking around a child. It&#8217;s been at least five or six years. I remember it clearly, it was in a car parked in a parking lot of a mini-mart, a couple of idiots in the front seat smoking with a toddler strapped in his child seat in the back. I just wanted to slap those people.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s pretty good in that I personally haven&#8217;t seen anything like that in at least five or six years. But, they&#8217;re still out there &#8212; those idiots, but they&#8217;re pretty few and far between. The vast majority of smokers today know full well not to smoke around their &#8212; or other people&#8217;s &#8212; kids.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video. Again, as usual, enjoy it while you can, because I never know when YouTube is going to take these things down:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vf9K5KEs4rE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally try to stay clear from partisan politics here, but here is a funny video from MoveOn.org about Trump&#8217;s campaign slogan of &#8220;Make America Great Again.&#8221; In the video, two women dressed in 1950s pearls and hoop skirts sing about the good ol&#8217; days of sexual harassment, domestic abuse, segregation, date rape and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ah, the good ol&#8217; days, when people really smoked around babies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[847,56,59],"tags":[849,173,848],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-secondhand-smoke","category-smoking-around-kids","tag-donald-trump","tag-secondhand-smoke-2","tag-smoking-around-babies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Make-America-Great-Again.jpg?fit=632%2C353&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-11X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3087,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3087","url_meta":{"origin":3965,"position":0},"title":"Study: Kids&#8217; exposure to secondhand smoke raises danger of heart disease as adults","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"April 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A study recently released out of Finland suggests that secondhand smoke not only damages lung health around kids, it damages their circulatory system to the point of raising the risk of heart disease when they are adults. 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