Are you a time traveler? Tobacco addiction hasn’t been rampant since the 90s and it was dying out then. It is certainly not a staple of American culture. Agreed that it’s not genetics. That’s just silly.
I have had multiple people I was close to die due to smoking created health issues in the last decade. Even if smoking is not as prevalent today, we are paying the price for it now.
A cup of coffee and a cig is now a Starbucks milkshake and a chinese disposable battery powered addiction feeding machine putting a cloud of I have no idea what into my lungs. The future is cyberpunk AF.