• i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 months ago

      Years of money and effort from tobacco companies to expose people to advertising to convince them that smoking is cool and sexy. It worked.

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        10 months ago

        Worked on me. Been a lifelong problem and by the time I was old enough to realize it wasn’t cool I was hooked. I collected camel dollars as a child.

        I thought I looked so rad at 11 marching down the road with a cigarette. I see that now and it just looks so wrong. It’s still like that where I’m from too. Little kids with cigarettes are a common sight.