Re:Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds...
by discodonkey on Friday January 31, 2025 @02:46AM
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A much more obvious reason for the decline in smoking is the popularization of vapes. If you look at U.S. adults, you'll see that the decline in tobacco smoking is almost entirely made up for by the increase in vaping.
Technically, of course, vapes aren't cigarettes. But It's a bit misleading to say that smoking is unpopular, when it's just been replaced by a doppelganger. Especially since vapes are also deeply detrimental to health [1].
Re:Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds...
by abracadaniel on Friday January 31, 2025 @03:28PM
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Indoor smoking bans were passed during that period. This was a time period of major pushes to outright ban smoking. That’s when I saw it actually drop off.
“Throughout the early to mid-2000s, especially between 2004 and 2007, an increasing number of states enacted a statewide smoking ban of some kind.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_in_the_Un...
So what happened in the ~2000 era window of time? The internet and social media started exploding in popularity. In fact you'll find that the graph of the decline in teen pregnancy [2] looks roughly similar to the decline in young adult smoking, and probably for the exact same reason.
[1] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/509720/cigarette-smoking-rate-s...
[2] - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/08/02/why-is-th...