US and Canada have seen great decreases after big anti smoking campaigns in the 90s and laws in the 2000s. Apparently European countries have not. But I have no idea about Australia and New Zealand.
I thought this was an easy question to answer, but I realised that I don’t really notice people smoking unless it’s somewhere they aren’t meant to (illegal to smoke in indoor public spaces including near eating areas or on public transport, and in a car if a kid is also in the car). But people smoked around me for most of my early childhood so it’s just something that I’ve internally normalised and don’t notice
The statistics bureau publishes stats every year or two on smoking and according to 2022s:
58.3% of adults have never smoked (including vapes and e-cigs) 10.6% of adults are daily smokers (half of what it was 20 years ago) 14.4% of adults vaped or used an e-cig
People in rurual/outer regional areas are almost twice as likely to smoke People in areas of “most disadvantage” (ABS talk for poor places) are almost 4x as likely to smoke than those in areas of “least disadvantage” (ABS talk for rich places)
And apparently among daily smokers, the average amount per day is 11.8 cigs
Source for all this (quite interesting imo, but maybe I’m just a nerd): www.abs.gov.au/statistics/…/latest-release
InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Australia had similar campaigns and decreases. We were the first to bring in plain packaging laws.
There are still people smoking but the price of a pack of cigarettes is astronomical($55-60) compared to 10 years ago and alot of smokers I know are moving to vaping.
The black-market for cigarettes is getting bigger too due to prices.
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What are the taxes on vaping?
InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Couldn’t say, sorry mate. I’m pretty sure you need a doctor’s script for nicotine vapes these days(I think they have been classified as nicotine replacement therapy).
Most of my friends are buying liter bottles of concentrate off the net(not sure about legality of this) and filling their own carts. I don’t smoke or vape.