Yeeeeech, I can't handle "the poors are addicted" narrative.
Smoking was high-class fashionable awhile back. Then the lower classes caught on as disposable incomes rose and factories made tobacco products within their reach. Necessarily the high class abandoned it because it no longer distinguished them.
Your high-class grandchildren will smoke(+). It's purely cyclical fashion and health be damned. To be crude, they will have to compete to get into each others' beds somehow and what better way than eschewing 100 years of their class' ground-truth advice about far-distant medical outcomes?
(+) As they wore jeans and played guitars in the 60s. Because those were counter-cultural, low-class markers.
Smoking was high-class fashionable awhile back. Then the lower classes caught on as disposable incomes rose and factories made tobacco products within their reach. Necessarily the high class abandoned it because it no longer distinguished them.
Your high-class grandchildren will smoke(+). It's purely cyclical fashion and health be damned. To be crude, they will have to compete to get into each others' beds somehow and what better way than eschewing 100 years of their class' ground-truth advice about far-distant medical outcomes?
(+) As they wore jeans and played guitars in the 60s. Because those were counter-cultural, low-class markers.
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