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America’s Smoking Habit Just Hit a Wild Milestone That Once Seemed Impossible (gizmodo.com)
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[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 17 hours ago

For instance, the rate of cigar smoking and other tobacco or nicotine products, including electronic cigarettes, hasn’t budged lately. E-cigarette use is especially more prevalent among young adults (14.8% of those between 18 and 24). Overall, 18.8% of adults used some tobacco product in 2024, or about 47.7 million Americans.

Amount of young first time smokers starting directly with vapes is also concerningly high here in Germany.
So maybe a pyrrhic victory in the long term...

[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I'm in Germany right now, and it's crazy how much more smoking of cigarettes there is than in the states. I hadn't realized how much it's disappeared in the US until coming here and smelling cigarettes everywhere

[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

And even here in Germany it is already astonishingly low, compared to only a decade or two ago.
We started pretty high. During my childhood in the 80s, completely smoke-filled rooms were the norm, and it was very uncommon for an adult not to smoke...

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