Cigarette smoking falls to record low in the United States

[LittleBunny]

42. I remember when you could smoke in the grocery store.

There were ashtrays at the checkout lanes and at the end of each aisle. Smoking in the malls, every restaurant... Back then everyone smoked in their homes and if you didn't, you still provided ashtrays to your guests who smoked. Asking people to smoke outside was considered rude.

I smoked for 30 years. Quit cold turkey four years ago. I'm posting this from a casino in Reno. I traveled here on business. People are smoking inside here. It's so odd, smoking in an establishment. It seems like it's been 20 years since people were smoking inside.

I priced a pack of cigarettes at the casino vending machine. $12 bucks! That's insane!

Smoking in America today is almost entirely a habit of the poor who seem to have a harder time quitting than the middle and upper classes, educated, who successfully kicked the habit. The constant increase in cigarette costs hit them hard, there's no denying this.