Health experts think low tobacco prices, a general tolerance of smoking and changes brought by the pandemic may explain the uptick in cigarette use.

  • taladar@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Personally I wonder if switching from the term ‘smoker’ to something more accurately describing the experience for people around them, maybe something like ‘stinker’ and ‘horrible stinker’ instead of ‘heavy smoker’ might help reduce the appeal.

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      1 year ago

      The exact opposite has happened, because “smoking” was a bad term, now it is “vaping” and that sounds cool, doesn’t it. That’s also the way smoking made a comeback with young people, vaping and tabak tabacco with sweet tastes and nice scent and shisha bars.