10 Things That Date Friends Terribly

10. Being Able To Smoke In A Cafe

Chandler Smoking Gif

Despite rearing their little white heads throughout the show's run, Chandler's love affair with cigarettes first showed up in Season 1's The One With The Thumb. After helping Joey to get a part by showing how to smoke like it's the most natural and beautiful thing in the world, he falls back into this old habit and invokes the ire of the whole coffee house in the process.

"The bottom line" he goes on to claim, "is that smoking is cool and you know it". Now though, the surprise isn't because Chandler's had a relapse, it's because having a cigarette somewhere other than the immediate doorway of a bar or out the side door of your office hasn't been possible for over a decade now. New York was ahead of the curve somewhat in the early part of the millennium, and brought in a smoking ban in for public places in 2003.

Chandler might not have managed to totally shake his habit, but by the time Friends went off the air smoking in Central Perk would have carried a maximum fine of $2000 for him.

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