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Society was not forced at gunpoint to buy cigarettes either, but with masterful marketing, corporations exploded cigarette smoking from 100/capita/day in 1910 t
by hannasanarion 7y ago
Society was not forced at gunpoint to buy cigarettes either, but with masterful marketing, corporations exploded cigarette smoking from 100/capita/day in 1910 to 5000/capita/day in 1960.
Humans are not random decision-making machines. The ease of manipulating our consumption decisions is well documented. If you think your decisions aren't affected by external manipulations, it just means you haven't noticed.
- pandaman 7y agoEven 100 cigarettes per person in a day is not believable least 5000 - people did not smoke more than 10 packs per hour in 1960 or ever.
- hannasanarion 7y ago*per year editing mistake from changing source from this graph https://ourworldindata.org/smoking https://ourworldindata.org/smoking to this graph http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p4ECPyex_cY/TzSalazW2XI/AAAAAAAAA2o/Wrgj5mSyGHA/s1600/Smoking+1900-2006.JPG http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p4ECPyex_cY/TzSalazW2XI/AAAAAAAAA2...
- pandaman 7y agoIn this case it looks like merely switching between different methods of tobacco consumption due to changes in the society. Cigarettes win vs pipes and cigars both in price and in time requirements.