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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • No, there was not a natural progression. In the US there were major campaigns ran that started around 1999. The first efforts started in Mississippi, and I knew someone in college that worked on the campaign. It was seen as a money grab internally, they didn’t care at all about anyone’s health.

    But then look at other countries. Smoking is just as popular as ever in China and many SE Asian countries today. Because they did not get the same propaganda machine.

    Also, big tobacco hates vaping. Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds have pushed back hard against it because it has hurt their duopoly powers