Except for pot. It is going up, up, up!
muslims love to smoke. I see this trend reversing...
I quit smoking in 2003 but it wasn’t because of government-funded anti-smoking PSAs. I just couldn’t justify it anymore.
Thank God.
I remember seeing a cartoon a long time ago with the caption “I didn’t say I quit smoking, I said I gave up tobacco.”
Why?
Because people are being bullied into it by fascist companies.
If you smoke in most companies you pay an extra 1 to 3K a year more for your health insurance.
I don’t smoke but I hate bullies.
I notice that politically correct at-risk behaviors are not so penalized.
Reasons for the drop include costs/taxes and health concerns. A pack is about $6 in my area, and I don’t think that includes the taxes.
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I live in a 20 unit apartment complex in a town of 14k. About 1/3 of the residents are old/retired. About 2/3 are young/younger singles/couples, many in their late teens or early twenties.
I have noticed in the 7+ years I have lived here that there is usually at least 1 smoker and many times 2 smokers among the young residents.
Based just on observations, I would say there is little decline among young people.
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I quit in early 2003 and use the extra money as my occasional spurge fund — when I want a new computer or peripheral or TV, etc. I estimate that I save around $3,500 per year.
:: Smoking is the nation’s leading cause of preventable illness, causing more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States, the CDC estimates ::
Please provide official death certificates from a proper coroner that confirms the cause of death as “smoking tobacco”
Beuhler?
As I told my brother...
If I live to be 90 years old, I’ll start smoking again because smoking takes 10 years off of your life span.
Think about it..
Haven't smoked since. No gum, vaping, pills, patches either. Straight cold turkey.
I'm feeling great!!!
And in the meantime, obesity rates skyrocket, as does the use of anti-anxiety medications, road rage incidents, and the general coarseness of daily life. But, by all means, let us cheer the falling rates of smoking. /s
Haven't seen that in forever.
I’d love to see among which groups smoking remains high. My guess would be homosexuals and leftists.
Falling is one way to phrase it. Dying is the other.
People can’t afford to smoke most likely
I’ve never smoked anyway, but if I had wanted to the cost would stop me. How do people afford it?
The government isn’t going to like this. Tax revenue from smoking is yuge!
Mark my words. Brace yourselves because this will be cited as a reason to raise other taxes at the state level due to a loss of revenue in the tobacco tax.
After 15 years, I quit smoking in 1981 and started running the same weekend. Haven’t touched a butt since then and I still run.
Good for your health.
Bad for the fact that once the Government experiences success in a social engineering project, they are never gonna quit “nudging” us.