[conductr]

When I encounter these baffling things, I just remember how my grandparents and everyone around them were hacking their lungs out and everyone smoked tobacco everywhere all the time. You’d think the common sense approach would be to assume inhaling dense smoke directly into your lungs was not healthy, especially given the “look around you” factor of ailments (cancer, emphysema, etc). Yet still, there was a large group of people who refused to believe it could be unhealthy without hard evidence.

The tobacco industry was a contributing factor but common sense and independent thought was already gone or it wouldn’t have worked for as long as it did.