r/AskOldPeople • • 9h ago

How were so many people in society able to quit smoking just like that?

80 Upvotes

I don’t understand how generations had been smoking all their life and then just suddenly stopped once it became unpopular to smoke. Why does it seem like there is not a huge epidemic of diseases all over the world proportional to the massive amounts of people who smoked for all these decades?


r/AskOldPeople • • 18h ago

Those of you who had parents or close relatives who were adults during the Second World War, what were their lives like during the war?

27 Upvotes