[MangoCoffee]

>In the 1930s and 40s

smoking was cool back then. it was a social thing to do. you can see that in old Hollywood movies.

[democracy]

Why not 1850s? )) I am sure even in the 80s and 90s there were plenty of smokers in the movies

[asdff]

Smoking especially in excess wasn't actually all too common until cigarettes started being mass produced in the early 1900s, and WWI and WWI got two generations addicted to rationed cigarettes (especially fig 1 from this):

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4843a2.htm