America’s Smoking Habit Just Hit a Wild Milestone That Once Seemed Impossible. The adult smoking rate reached a record low in 2024, new research shows.
https://gizmodo.com/americas-smoking-habit-just-hit-a-wild-milestone-that-once-seemed-impossible-2000732807
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A lot of costcos have stopped selling smoking cessation product (nicorette gum + mints). In my area, only 1 out of the 6 local costcos still sell the gum
That’s good. But I think Zyns and vapes have really taken over.
They just being replaced with a different addiction.
But vapes are everywhere, and these f*ckers try to sneak a hit wherever without any consideration for other people.
I quit smoking cigs five years ago. I had Covid and my lungs were wrecked. It was the perfect motivation to stop smoking. Two years later I was fully addicted to vapes. I caught the flu, wrecked lungs, and tossed the vape in the trash.
I’m so glad I quit. Most of the smokers I know are druggies or older folks. I hope someday no one in America still smokes. It’s such a bad habit with horrible effects on your quality of life
That’s certainly good news but I see teens and young adults sucking on those little vape machines everywhere.
All the remaining smokers live in my city apparently
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My dad finally quit, but not from the years of us begging him.. he quit because the doctor literally told him he’d die if he didn’t stop.
As someone in college at 30, tobacco is WAAAAYYYY more prevalent now than it was my first go around a decade ago. Now it’s just zyns and vapes.
Cigarettes? In this economy?!
Less than 10%, wow! And smoking is even more stigmatized as a dirty and (whether fairly or not) a “low-class” habit. Vaping helped me quit, though I never vape in public, not wanting to force others to breathe it.
Then why do I Seymour Butts on the ground when I walk my dogs?
Innocent me opened the article thinking “well yeah the cost of meat has gotten so high lately…”
You can have a light crack habit for less cost than smoking a pack a day.
You see a big difference overseas, so much more smoking, I’ve seen the decline in the US, way less where I work in last 10 years. Crazy overseas how much more prevalent it is.
It might also be due to attrition. My late wife was a smoker. I quit in 2001. OMG! This year is 25 years for me!
What? Hasn’t it been going down? How many “lowest” years have occurred in the last 20 years? And why is the title sound like a gen z instagram update?