This is not entirely correct for reasons already cited, but I’ll add this:
Government and healthcare providers have been driving anti-smoking campaigns for a looong time to the point that all cigarette packages are now olive green with gigantic content warnings and pictures of dead babies, and are prohibitively expensive. Also you won’t get some medical treatment if you admit that you smoke or, to a lesser degree, ingest nicotine in other ways.
It’s a bit short-sighted to say that the generations that grow up in this athmosphere performed an “insane feat of strength” instead of just growing up in a reality that makes it much harder to fall for cigarettes/nicotine.
It’s not exactly olive green IIRC, but some other shade that is scientifically proven to be one of the most disgusting colors to the average person
An entire generation has not rejected smoking.
They replaced smoking with vaping and other ROAs. I’m pretty sure the past decade+, % of teens addicted to nicotine would be far greater than teen smokers in the 90s.
I’m in my mid 40s and I’m constantly bombarded with Vaping PSA ads on Reddit. I don’t vape.
Ya but what pisses me off is that vaping ≠ nicotine. Secondhand vapour is far less of a problem than secondhand tobacco smoke, and that’s before factoring in nicotine-free flavours. Banning it everywhere in the same thread as cigarettes is ridiculous and shouldn’t be respected.
Until they made the nicotine taste like Monster Energy drinks, anyway. Don’t look at zyns.
Forever is a pretty long time. Can’t say I’ve ever heard anyone make a bold statement like that.
Meh, where I live few people smoke, but I still see people that smoke every other day. There’s still cig butts everywhere. I was hiking in the forest and this dude walking his dog was smoking, I saw him flick his butt right into the nature he was enjoying. And the number of people vaping is huge, even very young folk who walk around with vapes.
I was in France recently and everyone smoked there, it was like going back in time 20 years. Ashtrays everywhere, everything stank and people were chain smoking non stop.
Just because something has gotten less popular locally, doesn’t mean an entire generation has given it up. It’s just a fad not to smoke cigarettes right now, a fad that might change in the future, given how addictive it is.
Former smoker here: I don’t understand the hype around quitting and why people act like it’s so addictive and start buying nicotine patches.
It’s not like you wake up at night because you need a smoke. I once read that caffeine is more addictive than nicotine. You get a headache for a day or so and then you’re done with it.
Yes, smoking is a strong habit, but that’s it. Stop pretending and just quit if you want to. Your body is not craving it, your mind is.
It’s not like you wake up at night because you need a smoke.
You are describing something millions of people have gone through
Ohhhh it is just the mind!! Guys, I think we found the solution. Here we are, thinking smoking is a physical addiction, then comes this guy along and just solves the problem.
‘My experience is the only possible experience.’
Your body is not craving it, your mind is.
I mean…yeah, but that’s really underselling how much mind can controll the body.
Sadly I have to live with my mind. And evem if I’ve never woken up at night because of tobacco I have stayed awake because of it.
