I remember when all this was ...

Do you think that every generation will have a thing where parents say to their children "I remember when all this was ..."?

Just as my (hypothetical, stereotypical) father would say to me "Son, I remember when all this was fields" I can quite easily conceive of a future where I might tell my son: "Son, I remember when all this was Smoking. When you could just walk down the street and light up. When people actually used to smoke inside pubs and the staff there would get lung cancer and die. When you would go out for a night on the town and would come home stinking like an ash tray whether you'd been smoking or not. When you would often walk into a restaurant only to find the air so choked with smoke that you wouldn't even dream of eating there. When tobacco didn't even come with a health warning!"

Yes I think I will tell my son that.