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Smoking Is a Dying Habit. Not in Germany. (www.wsj.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is very sad. In my area, it's a declining phenomenon. I am convinced anyway that this reality will disappear relatively soon, in less than 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think it will disappear, because it's intentionally designed to be addictive, making it hard to quit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're not wrong. These dependencies will fall at a time when something else will be more important, maybe a global war, or maybe the expected climate change with the end of the world to follow, or who knows maybe aliens or asteroids, anything that distracts a capitalist system of viscid dependencies.