I just think it’s impressive he was able to complete a marathon while chainsmoking. A real throwback to old timey athletics.

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    growing? surely vapes & such could but no way cigarettes are a growth market, the US dedicates pennies to get people off ciggs and its declining

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      The culture around tobacco is totally different in Asian countries. In America the anti smoking campaigns of the nineties are still fresh in the cultural zeitgeist, and if it wasn’t for the rise of vapes people might have stopped smoking altogether, but nothing equivalent to that happened in China.

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        seems unlikely to me they haven’t had government-sponsored anti-tobacco initiatives considering how much investment is made in public health

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          apparently the promotion of health was why the gave the guy a dq. He flew to close to the sun (so he could light another cigarette).