My deceased grandfather was born almost a 100 years ago and he started smoking cigarettes when he was 12. I quit smoking awhile ago but I had conversations with him about this while both of us smoked cigarettes when he was alive.

He had no trouble as a kid getting cigarettes. Even more there was no social stigma around a 12 year old smoking when he was 12. "Kids these days..." was the attitude by the adults. You know, exactly like the dumb adults who see some teenager hopelessly addicted to these technologies and just think "kids these days.."

It is just a complete failure by adults and a good example of how all we learn from history is that we don't learn anything from history.