Comment by unethical_ban
9 hours ago
My suspicion is that alcohol is mind-altering in ways smoking is not, and has a large effect on social interactions in business and romance and coping with the drudgery of daily life.
Take away smoking from the next generation and they move to caffeine or vapes. Take away alcohol and there are revolutions and religious extremist revivals.
Taking away smoking still solves the secondhand smoke issue.
Not the second-hand vape issue though.
Those of us who don't smoke or vape can smell that shit a couple of hundred metres away.
Those of us who don't drive can smell the exhaust a couple hundred meters away, too.