Marijuana use is outpacing cigarette use for the first time on record

[jason-phillips]

Cigarettes are a chemical garbage stew, optimized for addiction.

If you don't want to get high and just want to enjoy tobacco, I recommend a traditional tobacco pipe and some good English pipe tobacco.

[wahern]

Or buy old MREs. When Steve1989 smokes a Camel or Chesterfield from the 1940s and describes the experience on YouTube, all I want in the world is to smoke one of those little sticks of ecstasy. And I've never smoked a cigarette in my life, though everybody around me smoked. (My lungs are just too averse, maybe because I grew up around in-door chain smokers.)

[cantaloupe]

I’m most surprised by the last fact

> Sixty-seven percent of Americans in the most recent poll said they are drinkers, compared to 63% in 1939

I know alcohol consumption rose during the pandemic, but it also seems to be increasingly common and socially acceptable to abstain from alcohol.

[mananaysiempre]

Define drinker. As is, it seems to be a poll not on the distribution of alcohol consumption, but on the social acceptability of alcohol—which is also an interesting question, just a different one.

When drinking a lot becomes less popular, I’d expect drinking a bit to become the common case, not total abstention, and those people might still self-report as “drinkers”, even if they e.g. refuse to drink at parties.

[yieldcrv]

Using marijuana and smoking marijuana are two extremely different things

Conflating using with smoking and talking about that synonymously isn’t telling anybody anything

[dangerface]

Cigarettes are for old people all the cool kids use vapes. Check mate statistics!

[psyc]

That’s a funny way to say cigarettes are vanishing, and weed is more legal. Stay classy, journalists.

[cantSpellSober]

If you'd read the article legalization is never mentioned, and this is specifically about smoking cannabis (not, say, eating edibles you could also buy legally).

More details in the poll results page: https://news.gallup.com/poll/396893/americans-not-convinced-...

[cantaloupe]

Although the (very short) article doesn’t delve into increasing legalization of marijuana, the second sentence and majority of the text is indeed dedicated to the fact that cigarettes are vanishing.

[greenhearth]

Do you mean NPR? They are an accepted paragon of professional journalism, at least for sane people.