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Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by hackeraccount on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:02PM (#29003863)
There's a graphic floating around that show cigarette consumption in the U.S. It goes up and up until about 1950 or so then it starts to go down and down.

I always wonder about that. I mean, I understand that there were laws and taxes and reports about smoking. Looking at that chart though it doesn't look like that. It looks like everyone went - "You know, I don't want to smoke anymore and I don't want to be around smokers" - and then just slowly gave it up over 30 or 40 years.

Was it the laws, taxes and reports? Or were all of those things just an expression of desire?

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Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:27PM (#29004239)
Reports on lung cancer became all the rage in the 50's:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22lung+cancer...

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