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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
Well....my mother tells me she started smoking at 10. Of course, times were different in the 50s, I guess.  |
As my father told me, it was *expected* for man to be smoking in the 60's. There even was a radio commercial back then, that had as slogan: "Het is geen man die niet roken kan." (In Dutch it rhymes. The translation is: "He who can't smoke isn't a man.")
This guy over here confirms what my father said.
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Je moet niet vergeten, dat roken er vroeger gewoon bijhoorde. De spreuk `Het is geen man die niet roken kan' is al heel oud en die heeft wel goud opgebracht: omstreeks 1960 rookte grofweg 90% van alle Nederlandse mannen.
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You shouldn't forget that smoking was normal back then. The saying "He who can't smoke isn't a man" is very old, and it has earned gold: around 1960, about 90% of Dutch men were smoking.
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Today, a commercial such as that one would be unthinkable. It is said that nowadays, only 15-20% of people older than 15 are smoking in the Netherlands.