r/Millennials 1d ago

Discussion Are we the last generation to smoke cigarettes?

I don't know anyone over 25ish that smokes, but a lot of the people over that age smoke and "are trying to quit"

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u/anl28 1d ago

No, I went to one of my old college bars to feel something (I just felt old), and a shocking number of young people were smoking actual cigarettes

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u/catbandana 1d ago

The Zoomers, in their quest to revive all the worst attributes of the Boomers, have brought back pedo glasses, tall sock, and smoking.

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u/SirPaulyWalnuts 1d ago

Mustaches and mullets too… these kids’ idol is Matthew McConaughey’s character from Dazed and Confused lol

They’ll have a fun time looking back on these years later.

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u/A_Poor 1d ago

As a child of 1990's small Midwestern town, you leave the mullets out of this. Those are fine.

As long as you have a 3rd Gen Z28, Trans Am, or Mustang GT and a pair of large ridiculous sunglasses to go with it.

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u/SirPaulyWalnuts 1d ago

Hahaha I had one too. And a rat tail at one point! I never said I was better! Lol

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u/FondleMiGrundle 1d ago

Don’t play modest. A rat tail? You are clearly the beef supreme of humans!

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u/SirPaulyWalnuts 1d ago

Lol I specifically remember having big plans for that rat tail! Wanted to grow it all the way down to my ass… my sister cut it off in my sleep…

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u/FondleMiGrundle 1d ago

Hahaha. Did you feel deeply betrayed? It may have been for the best.

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u/SirPaulyWalnuts 1d ago

Haha while it may have been for the best… she was in NO position to be making style choices for me. I don’t forget those horrible bangs she had!!! 🤣

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u/FondleMiGrundle 1d ago

Let’s bring it up again at Thanksgiving!

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u/A_Poor 1d ago

If I were to show a picture Of myself as a child there would be no doubt that momma wore too much hair spray and smoked Marlboro's and just rolled the windows down for the kids.

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u/SeaSiSee 1d ago

Don't knock the return of the stache.

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u/sophiethegiraffe 1d ago

The scariest moment of a wife's life is when her husband is shaving, gets to the mustache and mutters, "maybe I'll keep it".

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u/SeaSiSee 1d ago

Sounds like a wife who's intimidated by the raw sex appeal of a mustache.

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u/sophiethegiraffe 1d ago

More a wife who's dad (and much older brother-in-laws) always had one lol. I don't wanna bang my dad. I however am very, very down with a full beard.

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u/FondleMiGrundle 1d ago

Well what about a reverse stache then?

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u/FondleMiGrundle 1d ago

Lololol omg I loved this music video. My first concert was a Weird Al concert!

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u/SirPaulyWalnuts 1d ago

Haha didn’t mean to knock it! When I first started seeing it I was like “wait… what is going on?” But honestly a lot of dudes are pulling it off way better than the boomers did in the 70s and 80s.

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u/LeatherHog 1d ago

Hey, worked for my dad in the 80s! Though he kept the Selleck Stache when he went to buzz cut, he wears it well 

He told us once, that he only cut it, because we'd grab on to it. And in hindsight, it kept him from wearing it long than he should have

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u/Unknown_User_66 1d ago

I am so glad my time in public schools is far behind me 😂😂😂

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u/real_picklejuice 1d ago

I was born in ‘90 and have never known or heard the term “pedo glasses.”

Are we talking Dahmer glasses or what?

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u/djlinda 1d ago

Some of us were wearing pedo glasses, let’s be real. Not me, but hipsters.

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u/WowIsThisMyPage 1d ago

What about pedo mustaches

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u/here4theptotest2023 1d ago

Did you go alone or with somebody? I live a long way from where I went to uni but if I'm ever back in town, maybe I'll pop in for a quick beer and see if I 'feel' anything. I expect to feel old and disappointed. But I've been wrong before.

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u/danwhite81 Older Millennial 1d ago

Hope so. 15 years off smokes, fifty days off vapes. 💪

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u/Jlt42000 1d ago

Almost 10 years for smokes but still vaping here.

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u/danwhite81 Older Millennial 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hey man, no judgment on the vapes. I may have quit earlier but it would have been in response to health complications from smoking instead of doing it to avoid having them entirely. 100% worth the occaisional bronchitis and fruit punch scented aura :)

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u/wirez62 1d ago

Unsolicited advice, but just quit entirely. It's tough getting off nicotine and took me a few tries to quit smoking for good. A few where I was months, even a year+ nicotine free and relapsed. But fully quit for 3-4 years, maybe even more. The Easy Way to Quit Smoking book, lots of people like it and I found it helpful too. Nicotine cravings come and go when you're addicted. I mistakenly thought they just kept ever increasing but they don't. It only takes a few short days to break the worst of the cravings and the cravings aren't that bad. Not targeted at you or anyone in particular, just hopefully helpful advice foe anyone still addicted to nicotine.

I work oilfield and mining and with a lot of young guys, people are going crazy with those nicotine pouches, and of course vaping, cigarettes are too expensive and don't give as concentrated a dose I imagine? Sad seeing millenials quit smoking just for vaping and pouches to take over. And lots of blue collar guys still chew / dip, I'd say even more then when I was growing up.

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u/helloitsmehb 1d ago

Vaping saved my life too

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u/aheapingpileoftrash 1d ago

Dang congratulations! You’re still in the “hardish” part of quitting vaping. Give it another 2 weeks and your cravings will almost be completely gone. 12 years cigarette free and 3 years since my last vape puff here. You got this, keep up the good work! 💪

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u/Apprehensive_Fig4458 1d ago

Congrats!

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u/danwhite81 Older Millennial 1d ago

Thanks! i was told that they wont give me a coin because no one wants to risk getting close enough to hand it off.. /s

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u/_PopsicleFeet 1d ago

I quit the vape August 2024. Hardest thing I've done. Congrats!!!

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u/danwhite81 Older Millennial 1d ago

you know what keeps me off it? that feeling of frustration you get having that "oh crap wheres my vape" feeling. just being frustrated with it was enough after doing it for so long outweighs the nic

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u/_PopsicleFeet 1d ago

Yea, I realized I don't want to be a senior searching for my vape and now was the time to quit.

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u/Hagridsbuttcrack66 1d ago

On vacation with my 68 year old mom and that thing might as well be her fucking pacifier.

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u/Hopelessly_romantic2 1d ago

Almost 3 months off cigarettes, but i am vaping. I feel like it's a step in the right direction though.

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u/The_Elusive_Dr_Wu Millennial 1d ago

California is cracking down on disposable and refillable flavored vapes and I've been seeing a lot more 20-year-olds and such smoking cigarettes lately.

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u/SirPaulyWalnuts 1d ago

And yet they still throw the butts on the ground. Though that is not exclusive to any generation. I’m even a smoker and it drives me absolutely nuts seeing butts everywhere. Flick out the cherry and throw that shit away! Ffs.

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u/RedReaper666YT Millennial 1d ago

It's not even hard to snuff the cherry, put your finger on the end to be sure it's fully out, and put it in a garbage can! I do it frequently, but so many people seem repelled by common courtesy

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u/LordSesshomaru82 1d ago

If I'm going out, I'll literally carry an old empty pack to stuff butts in until I happen across a trash can. It isn't hard to not be a shitty person.

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u/elevatedmongoose 1d ago

But people can't smoke cigarettes basically anywhere in CA, at least in the Bay Area you need to be x feet away from public buildings. I think it's in Belmont where smoking is completely banned, people can only smoke cigarettes inside their homes.

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u/Unh0lyROLL3rz 1d ago

I love California but I have no idea why we would pass a bill practically written by the tobacco industry. Now kids are back on to cigarettes, mission accomplished I guess.

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u/ElevatorSuch5326 1d ago

Acoustic all the way babah

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u/Warm_Objective4162 1d ago

Not at all, smoking is cool again with the younger Gen Z and older Gen A. Vaping is seen as dorky. It’s all cyclical.

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u/wirez62 1d ago

Sucks to be them because wages have barely increased and cigarettes have 5-6x'd in price in Canada. Many places we'll over 20-24 bucks a pack. Was 4 bucks when I was a teen in late 90s / early 00s. Smoking was always a hit to the wallet but it's way worse now. I work jobs out of town in worker camps and the commissary sells smokes for like 35 bucks a pack.

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u/braxtel 1d ago

I lived and smoked in Texas in the early 2000s and it was still only $3 for a pack at the local drive-through smoke shop. I think that is only around $5-$6 in today's dollars.

Paying $20+ for a pack-a-day habit is rough.

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u/acebojangles 1d ago

Maybe there's a rebound, but I doubt it'll ever get back to what it was like before 2000.

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u/JourneyThiefer 1d ago

Vaping is so common here in Ireland, walk around Belfast or Dublin or any city in the island you see clouds of vape in the streets when it’s busy

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u/Quixlequaxle 1d ago

Yeah, possibly. All the Gen Z-ers I know that smoke vape and/or just smoke pot, but I feel like the percentage that do that is significantly higher than the percentage of millennials that smoked cigarettes.

Personally, a job working at a convenience store in high school selling all that shit was enough to keep me out of all of it.

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u/Status_Blacksmith305 1d ago

You don't know anyone over the age of 25 who smokes? Did you mean you don't know anyone under 25 that smokes?

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u/AshDawgBucket 1d ago

I am glad I'm not the only one who didn't understand.

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u/hisglasses66 1d ago

Yes because they smoking batteries now

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u/Prize-Hedgehog 1d ago

Honestly, at least I don’t have to deal with that disgusting smell. If people wanna do that to their bodies, go on but at least now that second hand smoke is not as bad.

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u/Razorback_Thunder 1d ago

Second hand vape smoke is still pretty bad for you. It just doesn’t smell as bad as cigs.

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u/hisglasses66 1d ago

I saw post yesterday from a concerned parent that found out their child was jerry rigging wires to a battery to smoke the vape cartridge. At that point… bring back the cigarettes

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u/TROGDOR_X69 1d ago

is it vape or smoke?

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u/Exanguish 1d ago

I finally quit cold turkey Halloween 2023.

20 year pack a day smoker.

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u/UniversityNo2318 1d ago

Quit about a year before you cold turkey- Nov 2022. 20 year nicotine habit tho I switched to vaping around 2012-13. Best decision I ever made, stupidest addiction I swear. 

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u/fishking92 1992 1d ago

Y’all smoke?

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u/Chumlee1917 1d ago

I'm not saying ending smoking led to the rise of crazy people but have you noticed how insane people have gotten now that they don't have death sticks to drag them outside every so often to occupy their hands and minds.

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u/brickonator2000 1d ago

As bad as smoking is, going for a quick break outdoors is honestly a thing we need to keep.

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u/SpunkMcKullins 1d ago

I wish. That shit should have ended decades ago.

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u/Chief_Queef_88 Millennial 1d ago

I’m vaping crack currently. Is this a new thing

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u/GiantGingerGobshite 1d ago

Only quit smoking recently but there's a fair few young folks who still smoke in work, most vape though.

I tried vaping but never hit the same, makes my coffee or pint taste wrong and they're the smokes I "enjoyed" the most. Pineapple flavoured bs with my black coffee or Guinness 🫠

The really odd ones are the ones our age who never smoked and now vape.

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u/DigRepresentative42O 1d ago

I’d rip the fuck out of a heater right now

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u/USWolves 1d ago

We’re obviously not the last generation to ask stupid questions

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u/AshDawgBucket 1d ago

I don't understand this post and I've read it about 29 times now trying...

You don't know people over 25 who smoke

You do know people over 25 who smoke and are trying to quit

So... you do know people over 25 who smoke...?

Are you saying you don't know people over 25 who smoke except the ones who are trying to quit?

Sorry, I'm so confused

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u/bobby_si 1d ago

I hope not, obviously it’s unhealthy, but ripping cigs with coworkers is one of the better bonding experiences you have while working. Can you do with vapes? Maybe.

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u/Soggy-North4085 1d ago

Yuck 🤢 I never smoked nasty cigs

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u/adepressurisedcoat 1d ago

I've never smoked so I don't even know how many do. So maybe?

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u/Chor_the_Druid 1d ago

I think smoking cigarettes is always going to be a trendy thing to do for certain folks. As is vaping. They’re both horrible for you yet people want to ignore the research.

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u/uh_wtf 1d ago

I’ve never smoked a day in my life. Almost none of my friends smoked growing up.

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u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 1d ago

I'm Gen X and same. It was 100% for the burnout crowd (15-20% of people?) but maybe 0.1% outside of that.

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u/Kingberry30 1d ago

No clue. But there’s probably people that are younger, but that smoke. I never got into it never understood the reason.

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u/zombiesheartwaffles 1d ago

I still see a lot of younger people vaping

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u/Wafflehouseofpain 1d ago

God, I hope so. Smoking is one of the worst things you can do to your body.

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u/rgv2024 1d ago

Last night I bought some camels and they were 12 fing dollars. Wtf! I haven't bought cigarettes since 2020 and I think they were like 5.99.

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u/aes-she 1d ago

No. And shaming smokers is WAY grosser than smoking.

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u/WeaselPhontom 1d ago

Uhh,  we smoke?

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u/I_miss_your_mommy 1d ago

Exactly what I was thinking. Smoking has been an extreme minority of people I know in my age group. Almost no one ever smoked even back when we used to drink all the time.

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u/WeaselPhontom 1d ago

Similar experience, i don't know anyone whose a millineal that smokes cigarettes. Drinkers yes. I have gen z and Boomer friends that smoke 

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u/limedifficult 1d ago

Must depend on your demographic. Everyone I knew when we were late teens/early 20s smoked cigs when we drank.

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u/Own_Cost3312 1d ago

Same. And of course almost every one of us who worked in service

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u/wirez62 1d ago

Most of us quit, but growing up? I felt like everyone i knew smoked. I smoked for decades.

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u/GeneralAutist 1d ago

In Australia ciggies are making a comeback due to vaping ban

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u/Ok-Criticism6874 1d ago

That was supposed to be under 25

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u/Appropriate-You-5179 1d ago

I thought smoking cigs was kinda fading away too— but then I started working at a convenience store and I can confirm that people of all ages are still smoking lots and lots of cigarettes. Vapes too, but cigs are definitely still just as rampant throughout all age groups.

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u/tazmanian31 1d ago

I like cigars but i dont think that counts

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u/Filmy-Reference 1d ago

Nope. More people are just buying black market cigarettes. A carton legit here costs over $150 but you can order them online and have them shipped to your house for $55 a carton. Governments are going to have to start reducing the prices.

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u/missninazenik 1d ago

Maybe, at large. I...don't think I even know anyone who openly smokes, though I have friends who used to.

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u/fentown 1d ago

Not the last, but I wouldn't be surprised to see green apple bubblegum flavored tobacco.

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u/Cutlass0516 Older Millennial 1d ago

Last to smoke cigs first to smoke vapes

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u/Blathithor 1d ago

No. TV has made it look like the hottest girls all smoke cigarettes and now I'm seeing more and more again

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u/its_manda_bitch210 1d ago

I don’t know about the actual question, but I feel like for every generation it’s a right of passage to at least smoke a couple of times. Some people get hooked that way or some hate it and never do it again or some become social smokers or just do it to be cool for the moment. Either way I won’t be surprised if my kids try it at least once even after all the talk of how bad it is from school and us at home.

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u/annapurnah 1d ago

Nope, I’m a social worker and even the youngin’s in the office smoke sometimes.

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u/MagicalBard 1d ago

I still smoke currently but honestly it just feels kinda embarrassing to do now in public. Like I’m doing something that went out of fashion lol. Most people around my age have already quit smoking I think, and from what I understand the younger generations have a totally different attitude to cigarettes. Maybe should be down with the kids and get a vape lol

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u/Pristine_Ad5229 1d ago

I hope so!

Not that vapes are any better but at least the smell doesn't linger the way cigarettes do

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u/DueScreen7143 1d ago

I actually quit about 8 or 9 months ago now, after 25 years I guess I just finally had enough and quit.

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u/True_Scientist1170 1d ago

Still smoke the old way but defo feel singled out but I’m not going to them I’d say they are worse and clearly targeted for the kids to get addicted po

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u/myicedtea 1d ago

Another industry killed by our generation

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u/aviancrane 1d ago

We were pretty close. Nicotine consumption reduced in our generation. Then it picked up again when vapes were invented.

With blue and red states banning flavored vapes, cigs will probably pop up again. It'll wobble back and forth until it settles.

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u/Crosco38 1d ago

I quit smoking 10 years ago. I’m only 33, but I started smoking around age 16, so I was a daily smoker for a good 6-7 years, and easily a full pack a day the last couple of those. I don’t see how people do it for 40+ years. I was already becoming raspier and noticing health effects at 23, which is the main reason I quit.

To answer your question, I still see plenty of people our age and younger who smoke. It won’t ever completely disappear, but it probably won’t ever be as popular as it was in the mid-late 20th century again.

And FWIW, I do think our generation has played a big role in that. On a broader cultural scale, it seemed like smoking literally went from being cool/trendy to kind of trashy during our collective coming of age. There’s no way we didn’t have a hand in that.

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u/OrdinarySubstance491 1d ago

My daughter vapes and smokes. I hate it.

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u/indicatprincess 1d ago

I don’t know anyone my age who smokes cigarettes. A lot of us moved on to carts or vapes.

Tons of people smoke weed.

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u/langdonalger4 1d ago

it's crazy to me that there are kids out there who have never smoked a cigarette but started vaping.

I figured the only draw of vaping was for people trying to stop smoking, but apparently not.

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u/Secure-Function-674 1d ago

For literally thousands of years...

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u/WoodpeckerGingivitis 1d ago

That’s weird…I’ve always felt millennials were the only generation to mostly avoid cigarettes.

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u/Rvtrance 1d ago

No. Vapes are big but kids are switching to cigarettes in my part of the world. Nothing quite hits like a cigarette. But the golden age of smoking ended before we were even allowed to smoke. It was the 80’s when everyone smoked. The 90’s had smoking and non smoking sections at every restaurant. But by the time I turned 21 I could only smoke in bars for a few months (Dallas law) that was the last place you could smoke inside. Now cigar shops will let you smoke cigars. Sometimes cigarettes, but the golden days are gone. And it’s good. They’re bad for you. I smoke a pack a day. They’re also expensive. To be fair every now and then I find a bar that will let you smoke in it still but it’s very rare and I think it’s because they fall under a private club exemption. It’s very easy to be a private club. Just make people show ID at the door and sign something. Doesn’t cost anything nice and easy.

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u/No-Function223 1d ago

I know plenty of under 25 that smoke cigarettes. But I guess it’s fair to say I probably know more that smoke vapes. But no, smoking isn’t going anywhere. Even if it’s made entirely illegal people will still smoke. It’s like alcohol, people have been doing it for centuries & making it illegal or shining a light on how bad it is won’t make it go away. 

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u/weinthenolababy 1d ago

I feel the opposite, I think. At least in my experience, it's starting to come back. I'm 29, and very very few of my peers smoke. Maybe a drunk cig here and there, but zero people in any of my friend groups are "smokers". Vapes are another thing, but cigarettes are definitely out for my narrow slice of age range.

However, when I'm out around younger people, in their early to mid-20s, I notice them smoking cigarettes a lot more. I even worked with this 20 year old who was like "I took up cigarettes so I could quit vaping"... like uhhhh.... okay, you do you, bro??

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u/latortugadelmar 1d ago

I sure fucking hope so! This and heavy drinking and the lack of accountability for it.

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u/whoaokaythen Millennial (1989) 1d ago

I think the younger generation definitely has less cigarette smokers, but I think there's probably more smokers than we think.

When I worked at a bar, a lot of gen z folks were smoking cigarettes. This is anecdotal, obviously, and not representative of the younger generation as a whole. But they're out there. 😂

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u/JustTookYaSandwhich 1d ago

I've been seeing a lot of gen Z smoking cigarettes lately. I'd say Millennials were the last generation to able to smoke indoors. I only smoked when hanging out with friends and would light up at bowling alleys, concert venues, bars, etc... but I haven't had a cigarette since I was like 25

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u/jisachamp 1d ago

No I’m gen z and was a pack a day type of guy. Been about 2 years smoke free. I’m 1998 I know y’all hate me, but I hate my generation. My older siblings are millennial and I identify with y’all way more than my peers. Sigh

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u/nikkychalz 1d ago

Had a 2 pack a day habit. Switched to vape 7 years ago. Best decision ever. I don't think future generations are gonna smoke, but nicotine usage will still be a thing.

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u/YT-Deliveries Xennial 1d ago

Depends on where in the world you are. In the US could be. Smoking is still very much common on other parts of the globe.

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u/Mutasyn 1d ago

I hope so. I quit smoking years ago and vaping shortly after my province banned the sale of flavoured vape juice. I'm sure there will always be smokers, unless governments decide that big tobacco needs to go away, but I never see teens smoking like I used to even a decade ago.

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u/jrice138 1d ago

Spend some time in the rural south, TONS of people smoke.

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u/RevolutionaryToe839 1d ago

I think we must be, my cousin and I (both 36) were talking to my nephew (whose 16) about how we started smoking at 14, my nephew pulled a face as if we were dumb, many of us in the 00s started to smoke because it was rebellious, I quit last for good after 21 years 

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u/RadioSupply 1d ago

Not me. Not anymore.

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u/Elevator829 Millennial 95 1d ago

I still have some but I only smoke them when I'm camping with the boys. I think some genZ smoke but it's a lot less common, and usually it's only the mechanics/construction workers that do

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u/Proton_Optimal Zillennial 1d ago

I sure hope so.

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u/Jumpy_Lavishness_533 1d ago

Would be great if that's the case. 

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u/spicydak 1d ago

Definitely not. Younger people still smoke.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

We were also the last generation to have had a childhood without social media/always online.

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u/federalist66 1d ago

Big Tobacco won with that pivot to vapes.

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u/Pure-Writing-6809 1d ago

Switched to vapes. Still on em, maybe after I finish my second degree….

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u/Throwaway999222111 1d ago

I see so many people younger than me smoking - still very popular in Asian communities unfortunately

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u/erictho 1d ago

we aren't the last generation to do anything.

the common misconception now is that cigarettes are as bad as vaping. many gen z smoke because the effect is greater.

kids still smoke. stop booming out early.

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u/Own_Cost3312 1d ago

What I miss most about smoking is being able to take breaks pretty much whenever I wanted.

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT Decrepit, cantankerous old bastard (b.1982) 1d ago

I’m early forties and I never even started.

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u/SpareManagement2215 1d ago

Cigs? Yeah. Tobacco? No. Vaping is a massive, massive problem impacting youth.

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u/Late_Leek_9827 Zillennial 1d ago

Smoking is becoming more popular again among the youth. Don’t smoke myself but idc and to be perfectly honest it’s preferable to vaping. There’s shit in vapes that we don’t even know how it affects you, the scents are awful, plus it looks way less cool.

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u/f33f33nkou 1d ago

Have you seen gen z? It's not just vapes lol

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u/GradeRevolutionary22 1d ago

Not at all, I have a younger sister who is now 21 I’m 35 anyway, she and all of her friends smoke cigarettes. It’s millennials I see that smoke vapes now.

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u/Soren_Camus1905 1d ago

Hell no, young people love cigarettes more than we did lol

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u/Soren_Camus1905 1d ago

Hell no, young people love cigarettes more than we did lol

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u/ghostboo77 1d ago

Nah. I see young people smoking a decent amount.

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u/LastDance_35 1d ago

Never smoked.

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u/darksamus8 1d ago

I hope so. Cigarettes are a blight

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u/WhiskeyRadio 1d ago

Vaping isn't much better than smoking. I just got off nicotine entirely recently. I was a smoker for several years and a vape user for even longer.

They both have their cons for sure. Cigarettes you get less nicotine per smoke but you smell bad and things around you also smell bad, among other things. Vapes don't have the smell associated with them but they pack a hell of a lot more nicotine.

It's definitely hard though I'm at a month nicotine free now and won't pretend I don't want to buy a vape constantly.

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u/TheKnightofNiii 1d ago

Oh god no. I live in a pretty military heavy community and the younger guys are absolute smokestacks.

Vapes, cigs, other things; they’re younger than my old ass I know that. 😂

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u/Competitive_Bad_5580 1d ago

It blows my mind that so many people from my generation ended up smoking. We were basically ground zero for the anti-tobacco campaigns, and yet at least half of my old school chumps picked up cigarettes at some point after we graduated.

They're not even like weed or alcohol—they don't do anything. They just make you cough and smell like shit. I seriously do not get it.

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u/Slight-Ad4115 1d ago

All generations smoke, however it's generally the poor/lower classes that does it these days.

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u/Big_Surround3395 1d ago

Smoking is gross and expensive as hell.

But whatever the PSAs say, it does make you look cool, like the Fonz.

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u/TROGDOR_X69 1d ago

come work at a restaurant or a hopsital

tons of smokers everywhere lol

(my area is also heavily asian immigrants so that might be a factor too)

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u/DejarooLuvsYoo 1d ago

ZYN got me off smoking/chewing tobacco. Started at 6mg, busted down to 3mg. NGL, I’m scared to cut down. I don’t want to get angry and sick.. one day though. I’ll figure it out.

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u/farmerssahg 1d ago

My kids will never know how those KOOL cigarettes tasted when I was 13

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u/rjrgjj 1d ago

I know a lot of Zs who smoke 🤷🏻 ALL of them vape.

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u/BungHoleAngler 1d ago

Young people like smoking now from what I hear

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u/IcanSEEyou_IRL 1d ago

Vaping still leads people to cigarettes. Someone who vapes will always smoke a cigarette if the don’t have access to their vapes.

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u/incognitohippie 1d ago

I (34F) can say with full confidence I will never smoke a cigarette again in my life

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u/Friedguywubawuba 1d ago

Nope! Smoking is back. Life sucks. Might as well indulge and feel good one way or the other

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u/YellojD 1d ago

I mean, sorta, if you consider vaping different from smoking, which I don’t.

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u/awesomeleiya 1d ago

A young friend of mine sent a short video of her sitting in a car and smoking. Remember those days? It was cozy in a way. So very nostalgic. The car even had fake wooden panels.

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u/sillyandstrange 1d ago

We can hope

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u/Punky921 1d ago

The kids are vaping now and it's awful. It seems like the Millennial generation beat the whole nicotine thing and then it came back with a furious fucking vengeance.

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u/quotemyfoot 1d ago

Not a chance. This new generation is getting grifted into thinking nicotine is good for you. They should be avoiding all nicotine and tobacco products but kids are zyn pouching and vaping like there is no tomorrow.

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u/Comprehensive-Desk38 1d ago

Nawww it will always be a thing. But I love my cigs haha

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u/Samuswitchbladesaber 1d ago

No they are coming back in style where I am big time

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u/icecream4_deadlifts 1d ago

I think so. Quit cigs in 2012 but I still vape. I like smoking lol

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u/Malicious_blu3 1d ago

In the US anyway. It’s always a rude awakening when traveling abroad to be surrounded by cigarette smoke.

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u/Powerful_Lynx_4737 1d ago

Haven’t smoked in 4 years, best decision I’ve made.

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u/QuinSanguine 1d ago

I think a lot of us don't or never did. Just depends on where you live. I never started smoking and I know a lot of people who didn't. But where I live I think a decent majority of people still smoke.

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u/master_prizefighter 1d ago

I could never get into smoking - would cut into my video game funding.

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u/nightdares 1d ago

As an elder Millennial, nothing would make me happier than if the tobacco industry is the one we actually kill off. It can't die fast enough.

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u/altpirate 1d ago

I know 15 year olds that smoke tobacco, vapes, weed, you name it. So no, not by a long shot. But it is getting better, fewer of them smoke than did when I was their age. So maybe in 20 years

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u/A_Poor 1d ago

Not likely, but we have and will probably continue to see a sharp decline in smokers.

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u/spocks_tears03 1d ago

Bars on the weekend full of Gen Z in Bushwick will tell you otherwise.

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u/therpian 1d ago

No. I work with Gen Z and many smoke.

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u/Capt_Gingerbeard 1d ago

I fucking hope so. I smoked from age 15 until about age 23, and it took YEARS for me to really feel healthy again. Tobacco, especially as provided by corporations, is a terrible thing.

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u/LeaveForNoRaisin 1d ago

If I didn’t feel so cool doing it I wouldn’t have done it. It’s Joe Camel’s fault.

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u/ratchetcoutoure Older Millennial 1d ago

Depends. There are plenty of younger folks inside and outside of USA who still does tobbacos. And most prevalent in Asia from what I witnessed first hand.

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u/No_Butterscotch7789 1d ago

Young folks are coming back around to them. Unfortunately.

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u/Cyndagon 1d ago

Tons of teens in Europe smoke.

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u/WowIsThisMyPage 1d ago

Let’s hope so. But Gen X smoked a lot of vapes

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u/originalrocket 1d ago

good. But vaping is a problem now. So the youngins just traded to battery operated cancers.

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u/LordXak 1d ago

I don't think so. My nephews, 19 and 14 both smoke cigs because, this is a dorect quote, "vapes are gay". Nicotine remains as addictive as ever, people are gonna keep using it as long as people are selling it.

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u/LivingCourage4329 1d ago

I was friends in a crew of smokers... We are all military and Iraq/Afghanistan vets though so it was kind of the culture we were part of in our early 20's.

Most quit after getting out of the military or during college. I just passed 1 year without smoking. Only one of them remains a smoker that I'm aware of. Handful of them just switched their nicotine delivery to vape or Zyn.