Cigarettes have long been in decline but recent figures, I believe show the decline has halted. Perhaps even increased in some countries. The ill effects of tobacco has been known since the sixties. A lot of gas lighting and denial evident until it could not be denied the damage being incurred within society. More @Wikipedia
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