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Less people in the US are lighting up
If someone wants to smoke, stay away from me with it and they are free to kill themselves, it is a dirty, nasty habit.The war on smokers seems to be working. Less people in the US are lighting up cigarettes. Some that smoke menthols are SOL because of the ban on them.
Those menthol smokers are finding ways to get them, but at a high price. Knowing someone in another State who will ship them to you is one of the ways, but at $110.00 per carton + shipping. Ouch. Especially if you smoke a pack a day.
My brand was Camel filters. When the price hit $8.00 a pack I said that would help me quit. It didn't. Get on a smoking cessation program. I did and I quit. Took me a year wearing a Nic patch. 21mg for 6 months and a 14mg for 6 more months, which I got for free for being in the program. I also get an annual chest CT scan to check for lung cancer, which is also FOC.
"Here’s some good news: Cigarette smoking hit record lows in the US, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey. An estimated 11.1 percent of American adults were regular cigarette users in 2022—a drop from the 14.4 percent reported in 2019"
Why Americans are smoking cigarettes less than ever
Cigarette smoking hit an all-time low in the US in 2022, though e-cigarette vaping remains increasingly popular among teens.www.popsci.com
I'm 63 and I remember a carton at ten dollars. I even bought them out of vending machines for my parents. The 60s were a different world I wound up being the only member of my family that didn't become a smoker. Dad died from lung disease, mom, of lung cancer, and my oldest sister smoked from about age 14 to 50 or so. She finally quit and developed lung cancer about five years after stopping. It was discovered early and after they removed a single lobe from one lung, she had no recurrence. That was about 15 years ago.When I started smoking, cigs were $0.35 a pack at the gas station. Most everyone I knew smoked.
Kinda like living.They'll both slowly kill you.