Decline in cigarette smoking has stalled, study finds

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1. It’s they new Super Fags.

   Have you noticed how they don’t include the tar and nicotine content on the packets since they started putting diseased bodyparts on them?

2. There’s only so far you can go with these things. Luckily very few young people smoke here compared to many countries. Vaping however seems to be an issue

3. You pushed back on the vapes, so what did you expect?

4. Zero smoking will never happen. People have been smoking shit for thousands of years.

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6. Only use tobacco for blazing zoots soo I don’t think anything will change going forward 

7. >Researchers at [University College London](https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/university-college-london) found that the average person who smokes dropped from smoking 14 cigarettes per day in January 2008 to 11 cigarettes per day in October 2019 – but there has been “virtually no change” in consumption since.

   Unless I’m missing something, this study is only about the number of cigarettes smoked on average within the smoking population. It does not say anything about the number of smokers overall. Both are important to consider, but the headline might be a bit misleading, given that the number of smokers was apparently still in decline after 2019:

   [https://ash.org.uk/uploads/Smoking-Statistics-Fact-Sheet.pdf](https://ash.org.uk/uploads/Smoking-Statistics-Fact-Sheet.pdf)

8. The vast amount of people you still see smoking pretty much backs this up. I suspect the younger generations benefit the most of the anti-smoking campaigns and the fact so many of them vape.

9. Maybe if the rest of everything else wasn’t so terrible, people wouldn’t choose to smoke?

10. “Don’t smoke it’s bad”

    “Cool, no problem, vaping is safer and nicer anyway”

    “Don’t vape either, that’s also bad”

    “Fuck it I may as well smoke then”

11. We’re down to the most stubborn smokers who’d rather be poor than go without a smoke.

12. Everyone I know who stopped smoking, myself included, just woke up one day and decided they were done. No vapes, no gum, no real cravings. I was really surprised how easy I found it, but I’m someone who started smoking because of a stressful job and the fact I couldn’t just smoke weed everywhere. If I had started in my teens like a lot of people I probably would have struggled

    It really is a nice feeling when your sense of smell comes back and food smells and tastes better. My skin looked great too. I can’t think of a single reason to smoke ever again. I guess they’re quite nice when you’re drunk, but even the last time I was pissed and I got given a fag I had 2 puffs and give it to someone else

13. Every one and there dog knows how bad they are, how much they cost and still the hard core smoke.

14. It’s basic economics. People want to put stuff in their mouths and smoke it, you just need to provide cheaper, better quality and healthier substitutes. The obvious one is marijuana, but big tobacco has been fighting this for decades. It’s why the government won’t let it be legalised now, even though all the evidence used to back up it being illegal is outdated and farcical. Drug bans don’t work. If the end result is feeling good, you legalise and make available the feelgood goods, and make people know how unhealthy the bad ones are. Just like that, cetaris parabis, people will stop consuming bad stuff.