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> The problem is smoking feels the same wiether 1 person is doing it or 1 million people do it

Smoking also requires millions of people doing it to work. You need enough consumers so that the manufacture of cigarettes is viable, and both acquiring the habit and continuing it are highly dependent on the number of smokers that you surround yourself with.

It would be very difficult to be the only smoker in a large enough community of non-smokers.




Corolarily, when surrounded by non-smokers, it's easier to non-smoke, too.


Not to mention smoking is often a social activity -- the "smoke break."


Smoking regularly is also terrible for your health, which i think is the main reason it's become so maligned. Despite all the supposed harm social media is not nearly as damaging.


That's a red herring, but I'll bite. It can lead to smoking, i guess. So it's potentially at least as dangerous. And the other way around, too, so smoking is comparitively potentially just as dangerous.


Not sure what you mean.

Social media can lead to smoking? In what way? I mean beyond the trivial "anything can lead to anything" way.




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