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Old 07-31-2017, 09:10 AM   #1 (permalink)
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So's drinking. Let's tax that until it's prohibitively expensive.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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So's drinking. Let's tax that until it's prohibitively expensive.
What you on about? I'm asking a question. Was it the 50s, 60s, 70s?
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Old 07-31-2017, 01:01 PM   #3 (permalink)
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In California it seems like the peer pressure from younger generations is disappearing based on my own experience. Judging from my sister's experience in high school (she's 5 years younger than me), I'd even say that kids have started thinking smoking is straight up uncool.
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In California it seems like the peer pressure from younger generations is disappearing based on my own experience. Judging from my sister's experience in high school (she's 5 years younger than me), I'd even say that kids have started thinking smoking is straight up uncool.
Same here, the numbers are going down quite fast.

The smoking ban probably helped.
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In California it seems like the peer pressure from younger generations is disappearing based on my own experience. Judging from my sister's experience in high school (she's 5 years younger than me), I'd even say that kids have started thinking smoking is straight up uncool.
That's certainly good news, however I think that as long as their parents are against it, many kids will smoke just to be rebels or whatever.
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There would definitely be some, but I don't think it's that significant of a number. With the way the culture is changing, it's about as rebellious as wearing all black. There are other more accessible, cheaper ways to rebel like buying weed, especially with California's regulations making 21 the minimum age for buying tobacco.
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There would definitely be some, but I don't think it's that significant of a number. With the way the culture is changing, it's about as rebellious as wearing all black. There are other more accessible, cheaper ways to rebel like buying weed, especially with California's regulations making 21 the minimum age for buying tobacco.
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In San Francisco they're trying to ban flavored and menthol cigarettes. I'm trying to quit but it's pretty crazy to think about a world without Newport menthols, the best cigarette that ever existed.
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