cigarette sell Local gas station had cigarettes on sale for $2 because they "are old" and "wouldn't sell". : r/mildlyinteresting Wawa Gets Philly to Change

Among people who have had this exposure there are more than twice as many smokers (53.1%) as among those who have not (24.5%), says Ramrez

Joy & pain are not a choice Similarly, while eating broccoli or chocolate is a choice, pain and joy are not

The tobacco industry realized that half of its potential customers were not even considering using cigarettes, Robert Jackler, a tobacco advertising researcher at Stanford University, told Business Insider in an article in February, 2020, The industry actually began engineering ways of encouraging women to be willing to smoke in public. They even hired the non-smoking Amelia Earhart to lend her image to a campaign for Lucky Strike cigarettes

1 Additionally, there is a public perception that smoking marijuana has minimal adverse health effects