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[OverMountain]

A great article about the allure of tobacco, and how cigarettes can be considered different than cigars and pipes.

The No Smoking Garden

The crusade against tobacco has depended on shameless propaganda.

www.theamericanconservative.com

 

[pappymac]

Interesting read.

 

[OverMountain]

Interesting read.

I agree. I think public acceptance of cigars among a successful and wealthier demographic may be an opening for the oft forgotten pipe tobacco segment.

You guys that have been on the forums for a while may have a better feel, but I think the pandemic brought more people into pipe tobacco than pre-Covid.

 

[vosBghos]

Great article , thanks for sharing

 

[anotherbob]

I am not going to read the article but I will say you can notice that any real significant anti tobacco movements didn't really take off with the general public until after cigarettes became common. Sure there was some debate about health. But much of the anti tobacco ideas of earlier times really seem to be more centered on the gross factor. The spiting the sneezing the stinky smoke clouds.

 

[brian64]

A great article about the allure of tobacco, and how cigarettes can be considered different than cigars and pipes.

The No Smoking Garden

The crusade against tobacco has depended on shameless propaganda.

www.theamericanconservative.com

Good article. A key excerpt:

What’s excluded from the photos and graphics are a few details: the duration of their smoking habit, how often they smoked, what they smoked. Were the photographed suffering from another illness? Did they continue smoking while they were sick?

When we asked the CDC about those portrayed in their 2014 infographic, they directed us to a page on their website called “Tips from Former Smokers.” The story of each of the seven portrayed is described in a one-page biography with accompanying brief YouTube video. Terrie started smoking in high school, Brett when he was 16, Shawn and Brian when they were 14, Amanda and Rose when they were 13, and Felicita when she was 12. Each of them, except for Shawn, said they used to smoke a pack per day, with Rose and Terrie having smoked two packs per day. Many of them kept up their habit for at least thirty years.

I don’t envy them or the hardships they’re facing now because of their past addiction. But it is clear the CDC has accounted for the compounding factors (starting age, frequency, and duration) and portrays examples of clear excess as the norm.

 

[Chasing Embers]

how cigarettes can be considered different than cigars and pipes.

Cigars yes but the pipe tobacco industry relies on the same crops that the cigarette and chewing tobacco relies on with cigarettes and chewing tobacco sales dwarfing those of pipe tobacco. Once cigarettes are gone, pipe tobacco will be right behind them.

 

[MinnesotaNice]

Thanks for sharing

 

[bullet08]

Korea keeps coming up, but no idea why. Korean people follow any type of trend quickly. Specially if it's concerning one's health. Once cigarettes were branded as bad, I have no doubt all the mothers will fill up every streets to ban public smoking. Only problem is, up until few decades ago, if you are a man, you smoke. If you are a man, you drink. If you are a man, you do your mandatory military service and chain smoke your lungs out. So, try stopping that. Cigar? Pipe? Rare in Korea, at least when I grew up there.