People who were of smoking age in 1940's America?

I love 40's films, Bogart, Cagney, exc. In the films, they are often smoking in someone's house, and just flick their ash on the floor, or even stub the ciggs out on the carpet, did people really do that in those days, could it really have been any more exceptable then than it would be now? Do you remember people actually doing that? Examples, Bogart in Dead Reckoning when he is in the posh office of the nightclub owner who is the girl's ex-husband, or Edward G Robison in Little Ceaser, when the big boss has invited him to his exspensive place to tell him he's been promoted, and many other times, sometimes in an enemies house, sometimes not.People who were of smoking age in 1940's America?
I think they probably did, Fran. I remember reading an extract from a Woman's Weekly from that period about being the 'perfect wife'. Apart from advising you to keep your lipstick under your pillow and apply it first thing before hubby sees you get out of bed, the magazine also advised against 'remonstrating with your husband for flicking his ash on the carpet'. Presumably it was your 'priviledge' to scoop it up with a dustpan and brush. That article also insisted that the perfect wife should also never complain if hubby goes out to dinner with work mates without you ....................... h'mmnnn. I love the 40s too, but in a 21st century kind of way.