- Unintentional Period Piece:
- Kramer's plot makes more sense if you realize that, when this episode was made, in the United States smoking sections in restaurants were still being gradually phased out in favor of total bans and restrictions against smoking inside work and public places had become common, leading up to the smoke-free laws that would start to spread by 2000.
- Similarly, outdoor tobacco product advertisements like Kramer's giant Marlboro Man billboard have been banned in most states in the United States, including New York, following the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, which took place in 1998, just one year after this episode aired.
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