And this force has become sufficient to help reverseagainst all the money and the machinery of mass persuasion and the commercial and political influence of a most formidable American industry, against the vast inertia of government, even against the habituation, reluctant or otherwise, of millions of regular smokersthe growth of a vast and, it once seemed, almost universally accepted and apparently ineradicable personal custom
The ad is striking on multiple fronts: for one, its hard to imagine someone in their 50s who has most certainly learned about the dangers of smoking and has probably tried countless times to stop, to suddenly decide to make the switch and continue a habit of addiction
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Benowitz NL, Nardone N, Dains KM, Hall SM, Stewart S, Dempsey D et al (2015)
For years, e-cigarettes have successfully been pitched as safer alternatives to traditional cigarettes
A recovering alcoholic and former smoker, Purdy admits that smoking kept him away from AA meetings before the ban