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But even Gwyneth Paltrow enjoyed a sneaky cigarette back in the day

Smokers of light cigarettes often inhale more deeply or smoke more sticks, negating any supposed benefits

Ironically, the efficacy of turn-of-the-century laws banning cigarettes from public spaces - between 2000 and 2010, many laws restricting smoking were passed in the United States - combined with early-aughts anti-smoking campaigns (remember the commercial showing body bags piled up outside tobacco executive offices?), which worked to keep millennials from being as cigarette-crazed as older generations, have, by the harsh light of 2026, given cigarette smoking the rosy glow of a bad habit from the good old days

were about $800 million in 2014