For a bit of context I’m 20 years old so I’ve grown up with typically smoking outdoors in public places unless travelling. I’ve heard you could smoke on aeroplanes, inside hospitals, school staff rooms and government buildings back in the day. Was there anywhere before the first smoking bans introduced in the 80’s/90’s that people didn’t smoke indoors? I know it might seem a bit stupid to ask, but there must be somewhere people generally refrained from doing so.
There is definitely more to be said, but you may be interested in these two older answers of mine, where I discuss the way that smoking was seen as something that should not be done in many areas of the middle-class home and public places in the nineteenth century:
When did it become socially acceptable in the United States for women to smoke?