The decrease in smoking has been one of the most dramatic changes in our culture over the last 20-30 years.
My best observation has been my being on a college campus on a regular basis for 30 years. Twenty years ago I would say that 40-50% of the students were at least social smokers. Today, I doubt that number is even at 10%.
It depends on your college. If you have many foreign students you will have many smokers.
In my college years at LSU, 1952 to 1956, the tobacco companies paid students to hand out to fellow students free sample packs, six to the box, to students as they went from class to class. I did not smoke, my girl friend did, so I would take a sample pack for her. I am sure this happened at other college campuses as well.
Back then a pack of cigs cost about twenty five cents and doctors appeared in advertisments saying smoking was OK to do.
In my college years at LSU, 1952 to 1956, the tobacco companies paid students to hand out to fellow students free sample packs, six to the box, to students as they went from class to class. I did not smoke, my girl friend did, so I would take a sample pack for her. I am sure this happened at other college campuses as well.
Back then a pack of cigs cost about twenty five cents and doctors appeared in advertisments saying smoking was OK to do.
My best observation has been my being on a college campus on a regular basis for 30 years. Twenty years ago I would say that 40-50% of the students were at least social smokers. Today, I doubt that number is even at 10%.
It's been my observation as well. The campaign to socially ostracize smokers has been very effective. As mentioned in another post, I smoked for 30 years before quitting cold turkey in 2015. Haven't touched nicotine in any form since.
When I joined the Navy in 2003, damn near everyone smoked. These days there are very few smokers left (and about half of those people vape). There is a constant drumbeat over smoking cessation and health-awareness.
When the campaign to ban smoking indoors was in full effect, you could always find people outside the entrances puffing away. I rarely see people smoking in public anymore. I remember being a smoker stationed in San Diego. I started leaving my cigarettes at home when I went out because the ugly looks I got from people when I smoked outside made me feel uncomfortable.