It really has changed.
It's generational.
Kids nowadays won't smoke.
They don't want to stink.
You don't see any of the kids smoking or vaping, which is another issue.
But I'm not going to get onto that issue.
I'm not going to get onto vaping.
I am going to draw the comparisons between smoking and dieting and diet culture.
Because what's happened with smoking is that it was banned inside in 2007.
So that's 19 years ago, which to me just feels like yesterday to be fair, because I was only at uni two years ago.
I've just left school pretty much.
Not really.
And nowadays, it's really antisocial, unpopular to smoke.
I mean, what's happening? It's been a generational cycle of it being broken.
So that law that came in, I remember at the time was like uproar.
It was like pubs were closed, pubs.
Clubs will smell of BO instead of fags.
It was like there was uproar, wasn't there? It was like the nanny state is...
putting all these laws on us, and it was up for.
But now, 19 years later, the incidence of smoking has gone down.
I've done my research on this.
The amount of lung cancer has gone down.
People who work in hospitality have got healthier.
There are less women who smoke in pregnancy.
And there is, oh, there's another statistic.
It really has changed.
It's generational.
Kids nowadays won't smoke.
They don't want to stink.
You don't see any of the kids smoking or vaping, which is another issue.
But I'm not going to get onto that issue.
I'm not going to get onto vaping.
I am going to draw the comparisons between smoking and dieting and diet culture.
Because what's happened with smoking is that it was banned inside in 2007.
So that's 19 years ago, which to me just feels like yesterday to be fair, because I was only at uni two years ago.
I've just left school pretty much.
Not really.
And nowadays, it's really antisocial, unpopular to smoke.
I mean, what's happening? It's been a generational cycle of it being broken.
So that law that came in, I remember at the time was like uproar.
It was like pubs were closed, pubs.
Clubs will smell of BO instead of fags.
It was like there was uproar, wasn't there? It was like the nanny state is...
putting all these laws on us, and it was up for.
But now, 19 years later, the incidence of smoking has gone down.
I've done my research on this.
The amount of lung cancer has gone down.
People who work in hospitality have got healthier.
There are less women who smoke in pregnancy.
And there is, oh, there's another statistic.
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