• tal@lemmy.today
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    27 days ago

    Honestly, cigarettes were on the decline by then. More of a 1980s thing.

    kagis

    Yeah.

    http://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/20385.jpeg

    And that’s absolute numbers falling, not percentage of the population – the population was growing while absolute numbers were falling.

    EDIT: In the US. But, well, I’m assuming that this is in the context of the US, as I expect that 1990s art motifs in, say, North Korea, are gonna be wildly different; it’s a culturally-dependent question.