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And how can you attribute this decline to specific laws? Seems it could be a result of many things such as public education & cancer outcomes becoming obvious.

• abenga 2y ago
  When people were told they could smoke from candy-flavored USB-charged devices they jumped back on the train. Education didn't do anything, and no facts are obvious in this new world.
  • LoganDark 2y ago
    It's because people in general tend to learn and retain simplified versions of things. They hear that tobacco in cigarettes causes cancer but that candy-colored USB-charged devices can come without tobacco and completely miss the fact that nicotine is also a terrible substance to get hooked on. Even amphetamines are better because at least you can stop those whenever you want and all that happens is a few days of being sleepy and then you're fine. Try to stop nicotine cold turkey and, well...
  • Zak 2y ago
    Do we have clear evidence for vaping causing harms of similar severity and frequency as smoking?
  • graemep 2y ago
    its not directly education, but education influenced fashion. smoking became a blue collar habit in the west, and then no longer cool globally.
    • darioush 2y ago
      Copying other people's behavior to influence them to like us more is both so irrationally insane yet so evolutionarily encoded in us.