Not too long ago, I went to one of those very old and elaborately decorated movie theaters complete with velvet curtains and the works. There were small ashtrays built into each armrest (which we weren't allowed to use of course).
My grandparents remember being able to smoke everywhere even inside a movie theater, my parents remember being able to smoke in the lobby of a movie theater but, unlike their parents, not while seated and watching the film, and my memories will be of smoking outside several feet away from the theater so that I can't even stand under the overhang when it rains.
Yes, things sure have changed. Do you remember candy cigarettes? Imagine trying to sell something like that now. LOL!
I remember being able to smoke inside a movie theater in your seat.
That went by the wayside with the advent of the mega-plexes, even before government ordered smoking bans.
Of course comfortable seating in movie theaters also disappeared at the same time. I have not been to the movies since 1982, not because I couldn't smoke - but because I can't sit comfortably. There is not enough room between seat rows for someone with a 36 inch inseam without stressing their neck by sitting in the front row.
They were DELICIOUS! I used to LOVE that candy! Oh yes. The anti smokers would be screaming if they saw THAT candy on the market again. LOL!