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by hackeraccount 32 days ago
Looking at smoking rates for people in the US - it peaks for men in the 1950's. I'm not saying studies and taxes and PSA's did nothing but on some level I think most people had a pretty good idea that smoking was no good long before they ever saw scientific proof.

I think those studies, taxes and everything else was as much an expression of that thinking as it was an influence on it.