Great example for a health behavior where people will be like “everybody does X, it’s never going to change” until it actually does change within a rather short time span, from a historic perspective.
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Once widespread, smoking is now uncommon in Great Britain 🧵
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Toxic clouds hang around every pub door.
I see it from a slightly skewed perspective as en emergency physician seeing exacerbations and acute consequences of chronic disease , rather than the disease burden that is underlying .
A traditional thing wide spread in the region.
Did people just quit smoking to start vaping
Jumping off a 10ft ledge is less harmful than jumping off a 100ft ledge. But I wouldn't recommend doing either.
I guess they've decided that a dead planet isn't good for them or their children.
I take a multivitamin a few times a week and my blood work has been flawless for years and years
You paper says increases risk of not eating properly. Well then eat properly. It's not difficult.
We were eating vegan food ‘normally’ in the 1970s- even people who ate meat also ate ‘vegan food’!
I can’t personally vouch for before then but the meagrest bit of research should clarify
People have been ‘normally’ eating and bringing ‘vegan food’ to parties for over 50 years in my direct experience.
But of course for a lot longer than that
There has been no recent ‘normalisation’
Very common to see people too young to smoke cigarettes walking around with a vape
Equally worrying
Not sure that is true anymore tbh