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https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco-trends-brief/overall-smoking-trends https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco...
by ndriscoll 2y ago
https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco-trends-brief/overall-smoking-trends https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco...
> Long term, smoking rates have fallen 73% among adults, from 42.6% in 1965 to 11.6% in 2022.
> Long term, smoking rates have fallen 86% among youth, from 36.4% in 1997 to 3.8% in 2021.
I'd say that's better off, not just in childhood but with long term effects.
- ty6853 2y ago[flagged]
- butlike 2y agoRefined sugar and gambling are two of the hardest ones to quit.
- darioush 2y agoAnd how can you attribute this decline to specific laws? Seems it could be a result of many things such as public education & cancer outcomes becoming obvious.
- abenga 2y agoWhen people were told they could smoke from candy-flavored USB-charged devices they jumped back on the train. Education didn't do anything, and no facts are obvious in this new world.
- LoganDark 2y agoIt's because people in general tend to learn and retain simplified versions of things. They hear that tobacco in cigarettes causes cancer but that candy-colored USB-charged devices can come without tobacco and completely miss the fact that nicotine is also a terrible substance to get hooked on. Even amphetamines are better because at least you can stop those whenever you want and all that happens is a few days of being sleepy and then you're fine. Try to stop nicotine cold turkey and, well...
- Zak 2y agoDo we have clear evidence for vaping causing harms of similar severity and frequency as smoking?
- graemep 2y agoits not directly education, but education influenced fashion. smoking became a blue collar habit in the west, and then no longer cool globally.
- darioush 2y agoCopying other people's behavior to influence them to like us more is both so irrationally insane yet so evolutionarily encoded in us.