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(58,724 posts)There's been quite an incredible shift in this country as far as cigarettes are concerned.
Ligyron
(7,632 posts)Those filthy things will die out eventually. What's interesting is: every time I put on TCM or an old black and white movie how many people are smoking and the deference the habit is given in the script.
New ones too (still) come to think of it. Guess that tobacco money comes in handy pre-production.
But even in the new movies you rarely see an electronic nicotine delivery devise used now that I think of it.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)It would be cool if there was a way that smoking could exist and be completely healthy.
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)You got a smoke? Line is used conveniently to make two characters start talking to each other who would have little reason to otherwise.
The same with offering a woman a light.
yardwork
(61,599 posts)The chemicals in the e-cigarettes include all the dangerous chemicals in tobacco plus additional chemicals.
Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)yardwork
(61,599 posts)Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/e-cigs-inconvenient-truth-its-much-safer-to-vape-20151221
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smoke-screen-are-e-cigarettes-safe/
http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2017/02/06/new-study-comes-the-closest-yet-to-proving-that-e-cigarettes-arent-as-dangerous-as-smoking/
and there's more
yardwork
(61,599 posts)Ligyron
(7,632 posts)mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)I've never been a drinker (midnight toker here) but I gotta say, even I love that Deep Eddy's grapefruit vodka and some of the other stuff. Glad it wasn't around when I was growing up.
Cigarettes and booze, the real gateway drugs.
Mosby
(16,306 posts)Who limited advertising, put warning labels on packs and taxed the fuck out of cigs.
Now the suggestion of taxing products to reduce consumption gets ridiculed by the right and left (soda, junk food etc.)
dembotoz
(16,802 posts)Should point out it takes an entire football season to go thru a 12pack of beer...
Last game...2 cans left
But he point about the biggest consumers just rings true.
Mosby
(16,306 posts)The 80/20 rule.
In sales it's described as 80 percent of your revenue coming from 20 percent of your customers. The ratio in practice is never exact.
Towlie
(5,324 posts)I think its usage shows that the speaker would have preferred to say "most" but the statistics didn't quite support that, and he wanted to subtly preserve the compelling rhetoric that the word would have had.