An entire generation has not rejected smoking.
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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.
i'm gen z and like 80% of my friends smoke and ~95% vape
I'm a millennial and went from all my friends smoked to everyone quit smoking to now everyone smokes. About 90% of gils i met on tinder in tge past 5 years smoked. Someone asked me why i didn't filter out smokers. Well, not really a whole lot left tbh.
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.