[cookrn]

People would smoke in church? During the service?

[rprospero]

I remember this as an old joke:

It's sinful to smoke while you're praying, but it's virtuous to pray while you're smoking.

[loeg]

If a lot of worshipers smoked outside just beforehand, it would still smell of stale cigs inside.

[ornornor]

“Hey, if god didn’t want me to smoke he shouldn’t have invented cigarettes”

[jasonwatkinspdx]

In some of the more old school churches I went to in Missouri yeah. More on the Kansas side of my family it was more everyone would smoke in the foyer / approaching steps or such, and it'd just suck through the whole building the whole day.