Have you been to San Diego or Los Angeles in the last ten years?
Actually, when I think about it, most of the people I’ve looked up to in life are or were smokers. Maybe I’m a poor and uneducated person.
I live there, being a smoker here is definitely looked down on as a weakness and ignorant. Notice that even you pointed out that many of the people you looked up to quit smoking, something that is more difficult for the less capable type people, and we know that, we are fully aware of the weakness today (and have been for decades).
Smoking cigarettes is down to about 19% of people, and they are not evenly distributed, it is the poor and uneducated that haven't moved on.
About 70% of smokers admit that they want to quit. Who do you think succeeds, the very groups that already have low smoking rates?
ONZ, where did I go wrong?!? You’re all redneck and not fit for the upscale areas of coastal Southern California!!!
(I could go on, but I just sputtered cookie crumbs on the keyboard. Sometimes I just kill myself ...)