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Originally Posted by DrNefario
My first thought was Stranger - I read it for the first time fairly recently - but I didn't remember the cigarette thing at all.
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See, I'm the opposite. I read it a decade or two ago, but I remember the cigarette thing vividly. :-D
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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's surprising how no SF authors of the 50s and 60s predicted a future in which smoking would be about as socially desirable as leprosy  . |
Hmm, not really. The more "normal", accepted and socially ingrained something is, the harder it is to actively notice it and to imagine a world without it.