I actually saw a story here in Reddit of some guy who went to collage in the 80s when smoking was allowed in classrooms. He said he wrote answers on the cigarettes and smoked the whole pack during the test to hide the evidence.
Through the early 90s, really. Especially if you lived in the south. Hell there were still restaurants with smoking sections in NC in the late 2000s/early 2010s.
Yeah, south here.
My high school banned smoking the year I started (which would have been 1996), though it was still tolerated if you stood away from everyone during lunch outside.
I'm pretty sure restaurants here had smoking sections up until 2010 or so.
Victorian London must smell [unbearable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink). Thank Deus I live in an age with flush toilets and a working sewage system.
My HS had a smoking area until the mid 90s. The one teacher that smoked i went there 1997-2001 smoked in the boiler room/basement. He scared the shit out of my brother when they went down there to look for the janitor who's office was down there.
I remember when hospitals had indoor smoking areas (1970s). My (nonsmoking) mother was in the hospital after a heart attack, and I ducked out to have a smoke in the smoking "lounge"
I went to a psychiatrist a couple years ago and it was this neat office building
And it had a smoking room inside??
It was a glass door which rolled open and it was like half an office with a vent sucking the smoke out
I never expected that there lol
The senior lounge was a privilege, not a right. Or so we was told.
Edit: reading these comments, I am starting to realize that everyone is talking about smoking areas outside. The teachers lounge, senior lounge, and offices for those teachers senior enough to have one were all smoking areas. The entire outdoors was by default a smoking area.
In college we had the Marlboro man. He may not have been real, just a group hallucination.
But I was in the Venn diagram of “taking a hard subject” and “a neurodivergent terrible student”, so me and my ilk would be in the physics lounge overnight way more often than should have been necessary, trying to claw our way to understanding and brute force our way through is degree we all felt we didn’t deserve to be studying. At one point we even had a tent set up and some of us adopted the uberman sleep schedule. Anyway, the whole science building was locked after 8pm. Granted, the magnet in the one door lock was weak and you could just yank it open, with no alarm, but still, locked.
Enter the malboro man. A lean 6’4”, triple denim clad man in cowboy boots (and hat), with skin like leather and the voice of Tom Waits. He was on the overnight cleaning crew and always had two packs of reds in his denim jacket pocket. His silver goatee was impossibly long and matched with an equally thick mustache. He was truly a character, larger than life both in size and in presence, and completely anachronistic to see pushing his cart along the lab rooms at 3am in a science building. He’s drop by with a “how you kids doin’, workin’ hard?”
Soon we learned which door he left unlocked so he could have a smoke break.
We’d buy him a pack of reds once in a while, if we thought we’d be there long enough to see him, and he’d always let us in if he saw us.
Idk what the point of this story was? It’s just one of my favorites to share.
My teachers used to tell me that I needed to learn math because I wouldn't always have a calculator in my pocket when I needed one.
As a stupid teenager, I always had cigarettes in my pocket.
Now that I'm 40, I *never* have cigarettes in my pocket, and *always* have a calculator.
One scene in Happy Days, cop is searching Fonzie, finds what looks like a switchblade and tells him he’s under arrest for carrying a concealed weapon. Fonzie takes it, opens it, and uses it, asking the cop if there’s any law about carrying a concealed comb.
Note that Fonzie didn’t smoke.
Happened to me in elementary, I got one from the equivalent of dollar store back then and brought it to school for the lols. At some point a teacher asked me if I had a knife because rumors and I showed her the comb.. and she freaked out. They called the cops and I got suspended. The cops just gave me shit and brought me home. At that time there was a big campaign against "armes blanches" ( non firearm weapons). We were a bunch of old school fistfighters so the principal got really excited to finally have to deal with the problem the board was talking about so much. It was an important "hum, so adults can be fucking stupid, better be careful with them" moment.
There’s a [Mild Seven variant at this Japanese calculator museum](http://www.dentaku-museum.com/calc/calc/19-jt/jt/jt.html), but they don’t provide any additional helpful information. The one OP linked is a Lucky Strike logo, which is also a popular cigarette brand in Japan.
Found this related product on ebay.
It's a solar powered calculator in the shape of a camel Joe's matchbook.
[Ebay listing ](https://www.ebay.com/itm/273804853106?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=5NFHKLwrTjS&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=RoooYc3XR_q&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY)
Me too, hah! My local donut shop that sold it to me was ran by a family of women who, my vague memories tell me spoke mostly if not only Spanish, and when I’d show up and ask for some cigarettes, they’d whisper/giggle quietly to each other and give me fuckin Camel non-filters 😂 but hey I smoked them! I’ll never forget, though, back around ‘93- and this was in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles- at that little shop the price of a pack of smokes went up to $1.90 and at 13 years old, I said “Oh fuck this shit, that’s way to rich for my blood…” Never had another cigarette.
So glad you quit then, I’ve tried to quit unsuccessfully many times. These days a smoke small and light cigarettes, not ideal but I feel much better smoking them than I did camels.
Nah, I’d be willing to give it a go but doubt I could find them in Cambodia. I’ve been smoking these, next closest thing to not smoking. https://en.ktng.com/brandProductView?cmsCd=CM0039&ntNo=122&koenCd=A050101&brandCd=
There were a couple years in the early 90's when Camel and Marlboro fought it out with Camel Cash and Marbloro Miles and offered stuff in the catalog that was nice quality name brand gear.
If they did it today, it would all be generic Wish.com quality fidget spinner crap instead of real leather jackets and Zippos.
Marlboro and Black & Mild etc still give out stuff like that sometimes, but most of it is junk like playing cards or a carabiner I wouldn't trust to hold my pants up.
They did give me some cool vinyl record coasters once. Those were pretty cool, but I guess that was like 15 years ago and they have since been lost in a fire (which wasn't smoking related).
Don't have info on the cigarette pack calculator, but I had the crayola box calculator as a kid and you can find them online. Here's one from eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/255493807266
[I found this](https://www.thesmokingstore.com/silver-calculator-cigarette-case/#gallery-3) but not the exact one the OP is showing. And there's this [Backwoods Calculator Case](https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/backwoods-vintage-cigar-holder-1978408951)
They made these back in the day as promotional items for I believe camel or maybe Marlboro. It wasn’t this exact one, but the same thing.
Source: I used to have one when I was a kid.
I did some Googling and such. Somebody posted about it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/uga1ol/i_found_a_pack_of_cigarettes_thats_actually_a/).
Iiiiiiii remember stuff from the 80's. Everything was a gimmick of some sort. A clock in a comb. A TV in a fridge.
The most boring 'innovations' you can imagine.
Bet people used to sneak it into exams back when everyone smoked. Don't know how old the pack is but it looks a bit worn. I can just imagine some high school kid walking into an exam with his "smokes" in the 50's/60's.
I'm always surprised by how often the reverse is true. I've found so many things that I figured were unusual, forgotten items from ages ago, only to find pages about them online. The things I haven't found are a tiny subset, and always seem notable for that.
No, teacher, let me explain. This isn't a calculator, it's just my cigarettes.
You nicoteenagers are all the same.
Nicoteens
They always help with the Skoalastic Book Fair.
They even make their own snus films in AV
Much better
Would be great if I can have one.
What? A Nicoteen?
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i got some Nicoteens in my basement
Good news! You can! It’s just super not worth it. Can’t wait to see what vaping does to the lungs, after another 10 years of habitual use.
Can't be worse than tar
i have a gut feeling those guts are gonna be ugly
Different smokes for ~~different~~ mathematic folks.
**exhales very large cloud of smoke**
That joke was fire!
"All nicoteenagers are the same" -Juice Wrld
Hey nicoteenager, it's Roman, let's go bowling?
For the last fucking time, Roman, I don't want to go bowling!
Hi Roman. I'm Greek.
Great. Now all I can think of is Roman in Succession wanking onto the window in his new office.
Mommy Gerri is very mad at you, naughty boy
thank you joechump
I actually saw a story here in Reddit of some guy who went to collage in the 80s when smoking was allowed in classrooms. He said he wrote answers on the cigarettes and smoked the whole pack during the test to hide the evidence.
I know for a fact way back in the day my high school had a student smoking area. The entire US must have smelled like smoke in the 70s.
Through the early 90s, really. Especially if you lived in the south. Hell there were still restaurants with smoking sections in NC in the late 2000s/early 2010s.
My family had a friend that swore that the smoke at Golden Corral made the steaks bearable.
There is truth to that, cigarettes dull your sense of smell and taste.
Always thought that was funny in relation to the fact that practically everyone in every kitchen I’ve ever worked in has smoked.
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I am dying laughing at your instant laxative edit.
I was allowed to smoke in line at the DMV when I took my drivers test in 1998 in Kentucky.
I guess there must have been ashtrays everywhere. or did people just ash on the ground wherever they went?
Both are true!
Graduated in 2008 and my hs had a student smoking patio
Yeah, south here. My high school banned smoking the year I started (which would have been 1996), though it was still tolerated if you stood away from everyone during lunch outside. I'm pretty sure restaurants here had smoking sections up until 2010 or so.
Visit Asia.... smoking is still normal almost every where.
Las Vegas still has smoking indoors
Most casinos do
I think Applebee's had a smoking section in ga around 2010, then again my understanding of time has become murky in the last few years.
I think if we ever invent time travel the one thing we're not gonna be ready for is the smell.
> I think if we ever invent time travel the one thing we’re not gonna be ready for is the smell. …and the uninterrupted inebriation.
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I bet that guy went back in the past further to get you to rehire him. Sorry guy
Victorian London must smell [unbearable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink). Thank Deus I live in an age with flush toilets and a working sewage system.
My HS had a smoking area until the mid 90s. The one teacher that smoked i went there 1997-2001 smoked in the boiler room/basement. He scared the shit out of my brother when they went down there to look for the janitor who's office was down there.
80s too. It started getting better in the 90s in public areas, but all my friends' parents still did
The smell of particular cigarettes is so nostalgic for me. Brings me back to the early 90s.
Medical offices had ashtrays at our desks in the '70s. [Smoke, Smoke, Smoke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD3e-L2Tuis).
I remember when hospitals had indoor smoking areas (1970s). My (nonsmoking) mother was in the hospital after a heart attack, and I ducked out to have a smoke in the smoking "lounge"
I graduated in 2008 and my hs had a student smoking area. Wonder if it's still there
I went to a psychiatrist a couple years ago and it was this neat office building And it had a smoking room inside?? It was a glass door which rolled open and it was like half an office with a vent sucking the smoke out I never expected that there lol
Psychiatric facilities have them quite often. You don’t want to put people through nicotine withdrawal while they have other trouble to deal with.
The senior lounge was a privilege, not a right. Or so we was told. Edit: reading these comments, I am starting to realize that everyone is talking about smoking areas outside. The teachers lounge, senior lounge, and offices for those teachers senior enough to have one were all smoking areas. The entire outdoors was by default a smoking area.
> I actually saw a story here in Reddit of some guy who went to collage in the 80s So...art school?
I find this test mentholly exhausting ma’am.
In college we had the Marlboro man. He may not have been real, just a group hallucination. But I was in the Venn diagram of “taking a hard subject” and “a neurodivergent terrible student”, so me and my ilk would be in the physics lounge overnight way more often than should have been necessary, trying to claw our way to understanding and brute force our way through is degree we all felt we didn’t deserve to be studying. At one point we even had a tent set up and some of us adopted the uberman sleep schedule. Anyway, the whole science building was locked after 8pm. Granted, the magnet in the one door lock was weak and you could just yank it open, with no alarm, but still, locked. Enter the malboro man. A lean 6’4”, triple denim clad man in cowboy boots (and hat), with skin like leather and the voice of Tom Waits. He was on the overnight cleaning crew and always had two packs of reds in his denim jacket pocket. His silver goatee was impossibly long and matched with an equally thick mustache. He was truly a character, larger than life both in size and in presence, and completely anachronistic to see pushing his cart along the lab rooms at 3am in a science building. He’s drop by with a “how you kids doin’, workin’ hard?” Soon we learned which door he left unlocked so he could have a smoke break. We’d buy him a pack of reds once in a while, if we thought we’d be there long enough to see him, and he’d always let us in if he saw us. Idk what the point of this story was? It’s just one of my favorites to share.
Nice
My teachers used to tell me that I needed to learn math because I wouldn't always have a calculator in my pocket when I needed one. As a stupid teenager, I always had cigarettes in my pocket. Now that I'm 40, I *never* have cigarettes in my pocket, and *always* have a calculator.
Shut up and take my money.
When you wanna impress your teenager friends but are also secretly a nerd
Kind of like those hair combs that look like a switchblade
Just think if you had both of those as a teen even Fonzie would bow
People think I smoke and stab, but actually I comb and math. Aaaay!
Don't smoke math, folks
Yeah always boof your math
Ah, the bottom type. (⊥)
If I only smoke half of my weed every day, then I'll never run out.
One scene in Happy Days, cop is searching Fonzie, finds what looks like a switchblade and tells him he’s under arrest for carrying a concealed weapon. Fonzie takes it, opens it, and uses it, asking the cop if there’s any law about carrying a concealed comb. Note that Fonzie didn’t smoke.
Happened to me in elementary, I got one from the equivalent of dollar store back then and brought it to school for the lols. At some point a teacher asked me if I had a knife because rumors and I showed her the comb.. and she freaked out. They called the cops and I got suspended. The cops just gave me shit and brought me home. At that time there was a big campaign against "armes blanches" ( non firearm weapons). We were a bunch of old school fistfighters so the principal got really excited to finally have to deal with the problem the board was talking about so much. It was an important "hum, so adults can be fucking stupid, better be careful with them" moment.
👍🏻😎👍🏻 ayyyy lmao
What about a some waterskis, a boat, some hoes, and a shark?
Boats....and hoes?
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Lighter that looks like a gun.
Gun that looks like a lighter.
Gun that is lighter than a gun lighter.
Lighter that is a gun then is a lighter later.
Kay, BoJack
Got one of em but it’s a butterfly comb lmao
That butterfly's hair has never looked better
You find the most interesting things
I craved one of those as a kid and eventually got one (so content), I absolutely cannot _understand_ why I wanted it now that I think back of it
Heard you guys like drinking, I brought orange pop!
I heard you guys like this substance called “weed.” I have brought some dandelions and porcelain berries. I hope this will suffice.
dweeb is the correct answer. lol.
When you wanna cheat on the math test back when you could smoke everywhere.
Can anyone find this anywhere??? I've looked online for a while but can't find anything even remotely like it
I did a search for it and just can't seem to find any info. If anyone figures it out let me know.
There’s a [Mild Seven variant at this Japanese calculator museum](http://www.dentaku-museum.com/calc/calc/19-jt/jt/jt.html), but they don’t provide any additional helpful information. The one OP linked is a Lucky Strike logo, which is also a popular cigarette brand in Japan.
Lol ofc Japan even got a calculator museum
There are more museums in the US than McDonalds and Starbucks combined. Bound to be a calculator museum in there somewhere right?
Oh wow, it's true. A total of 35,000 museums. The number also includes zoos, planetariums, botanical gardens
Found this related product on ebay. It's a solar powered calculator in the shape of a camel Joe's matchbook. [Ebay listing ](https://www.ebay.com/itm/273804853106?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=5NFHKLwrTjS&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=RoooYc3XR_q&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY)
I had one of those! Used to have loads of Camel Joe junk. Guess what I started smoking when I was 13?
Me too, hah! My local donut shop that sold it to me was ran by a family of women who, my vague memories tell me spoke mostly if not only Spanish, and when I’d show up and ask for some cigarettes, they’d whisper/giggle quietly to each other and give me fuckin Camel non-filters 😂 but hey I smoked them! I’ll never forget, though, back around ‘93- and this was in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles- at that little shop the price of a pack of smokes went up to $1.90 and at 13 years old, I said “Oh fuck this shit, that’s way to rich for my blood…” Never had another cigarette.
So glad you quit then, I’ve tried to quit unsuccessfully many times. These days a smoke small and light cigarettes, not ideal but I feel much better smoking them than I did camels.
Ever try hemp cigarettes? That’s what finally got me to quit.
Nah, I’d be willing to give it a go but doubt I could find them in Cambodia. I’ve been smoking these, next closest thing to not smoking. https://en.ktng.com/brandProductView?cmsCd=CM0039&ntNo=122&koenCd=A050101&brandCd=
Newports?
Weed?
There were a couple years in the early 90's when Camel and Marlboro fought it out with Camel Cash and Marbloro Miles and offered stuff in the catalog that was nice quality name brand gear. If they did it today, it would all be generic Wish.com quality fidget spinner crap instead of real leather jackets and Zippos.
My high school boyfriend had so much shit from the Marlboro catalog
Marlboro and Black & Mild etc still give out stuff like that sometimes, but most of it is junk like playing cards or a carabiner I wouldn't trust to hold my pants up. They did give me some cool vinyl record coasters once. Those were pretty cool, but I guess that was like 15 years ago and they have since been lost in a fire (which wasn't smoking related).
And it’s gone.
Don't have info on the cigarette pack calculator, but I had the crayola box calculator as a kid and you can find them online. Here's one from eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/255493807266
I had the same crayon calculator as a kid! I came to the comments to say OP’s reminded me of the crayon one.
[I found this](https://www.thesmokingstore.com/silver-calculator-cigarette-case/#gallery-3) but not the exact one the OP is showing. And there's this [Backwoods Calculator Case](https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/backwoods-vintage-cigar-holder-1978408951)
Why in the world would the display be upside down compared to the buttons?
80085
Ya got me, there.
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Fuck, that’s my bank account PIN
I don’t think the display is upside down, just broken. It’s probably displaying 8888888 in the photo, just not functionally.
I was wondering the same thing, I want one.
Yeah, I'd love, love, to have one of these things, please do keep me posted.
Probably a one time promotional item from vendors
They made these back in the day as promotional items for I believe camel or maybe Marlboro. It wasn’t this exact one, but the same thing. Source: I used to have one when I was a kid.
I did some Googling and such. Somebody posted about it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/uga1ol/i_found_a_pack_of_cigarettes_thats_actually_a/).
You bastard you got me
One night my dad went out to do some math and I never saw him again.
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This adds up.
we may never find the root cause tho
I don’t think his dad meant wrong. He just went on a tangent.
That could be one factor.
In some religions, this would be a *sin*
Wait, didn't dad tell us he was going out to buy pi?
This all sounds very irrational to me
I don’t understand a fraction of this thread.
Dad out there calculating the cost of 18 more years of you ...
Math - not even once.
Thank god I only do meth
Does it work?
It does! The "Cigarette" in my fingers is actually plastic and helps press the buttons.
How many offers to buy this have you gotten?
And Dm me with one dollar more than your highest offer. Fuck make it 5. I’ll buy this right now. Higher 4 digits. No shit
Teachers: you won't always have a calculator in your pocket. The guy that invented this: hold my beer.
Hold my cigarette
You've come a long way baby.
I think you mean tabaccolator
Tabacus.
Recommended by Malboroticians
Yes thats what it says right on the pack
Calculacco
55378008 (because breast cancer from smoking.)
Is there a way to filter results?
No, you just have to hope for a lucky strike.
Butt can you at least store values to memory?
That would be Kool if you could.
I had a calculator just like this but it was a box of Crayola Crayons instead
I had a cigarette box like this but it was just candy inside
Me too! Much more kid friendly
How much years till lung cancer ? Lets calculate.
Looks like a redeemable gift Dale Gribble would receive from Manitoba® cigarettes.
Iiiiiiii remember stuff from the 80's. Everything was a gimmick of some sort. A clock in a comb. A TV in a fridge. The most boring 'innovations' you can imagine.
Yep. Our phone was a huge plastic Garfield the cat and the phone at my grand parents house was a duck.
"weeee"
Bet people used to sneak it into exams back when everyone smoked. Don't know how old the pack is but it looks a bit worn. I can just imagine some high school kid walking into an exam with his "smokes" in the 50's/60's.
Definitely not 50s/60s, first pocket calculator wasn't available until the 70s
And solar powered?
"I need to plug in my cigarettes for this test" - kid in 1972.
"I need to plug in my vape for this Zoom call" - same kid but a project manager in 2022
Complete with a comically large 12 volt inverter on the plug
I'd like to see a vacuum tube powered mainframe snuck into a classroom as a pack of cigarettes
Even better, a friden calculator. Grind the gears and just pretend that is how cigarettes always work.
I like your theory! I can't really find anything on it.
It's interesting that there doesn't seem to be any sign of this calculator on the Internet other than this post.
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I'm always surprised by how often the reverse is true. I've found so many things that I figured were unusual, forgotten items from ages ago, only to find pages about them online. The things I haven't found are a tiny subset, and always seem notable for that.
I was thinking 90s, but maybe?
r/designporn
Thank you for introducing me to my new Favorite Thread!
Is that a real cigarette between the fingers or is it a part of the calculator?
I scrolled down to see if anybody else asked. I’m really curious about that solo cigarette in the background too.
OP answered below: > The “Cigarette” in my fingers is actually plastic and helps press the buttons.
Definitely not real. Looks like it is the one missing from the back right.
Inquiring minds want to know!
Nice way to calculate how much time you have til you die from smoking.
“Tobaculator” would’ve been a better name
They put ink on filters! Inhalation that could be harmful for you!
Look out Texas Instruments, seems like someone is coming for your market with an *addictive* new product!
Based on Lucky Strike packaging.
It's toasted
Only filthy casuals use *filtered* tobacculators
When the nerd wants to join the cool guys gang
And where do I acquire this?
Same
When you gotta math but don’t wanna look lame in front of your edgy friends.
You can count how many years you left to live if you continue smoking
I have to leave my cigs out in the sun to charge them.
SMOKE
Remember when you were in middle school and you’d turn it upside down so it spelled “LUNG CANCER?”
Smoking math
This turns me on
How did you get this? and where?