The problem with alcohol is that it's getting increasingly cool and pervasive not less. The breweries per square mile in my city is increasing quadraticly, more

The problem with alcohol is that it's getting increasingly cool and pervasive not less. The breweries per square mile in my city is increasing quadraticly, more kinds of alcohol are being allowed to be sold at non-liquor stores. Every third space is adding a bar and bars are adding food and activities to become third spaces. Alcohol is also fun in an inherently desirable way that cigarettes aren't. People don't drink because it's cool, people drink because they like being unsober. Smoking weed is super stigmatized and is outright illegal most places and people still do it. Those same people aren't buying cigarettes. Alcohol also doesn't have a strong narrative of being addictive, difficult to quit, causing people to spiral into more and more consumption, or being inherently harmful to others. These things happen to some people but with cigarettes it was a guarantee for everyone even at moderate usage. The fact that alcohol makes you sick is a natural mediating factor for most people.