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> Booze, cigarettes, gas

If the government took less of a tax cut from these items they would be a little more affordable.

Also, Z's still smoke, but it's in the form of Zyn patches and nicotine bars.

Booze is mostly a women and poor person thing now. And gas, most of the Z's don't seem to drive because their parents always chauffeured them.

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... and vaping. Though it's pretty strange to me to see people of all ages who seem pretty cool (like somebody really creative who runs a green/handmade clothing store and teaches classes in block printing and such) and then they take a hit of a vape in front of me and I think a little less of them.

(My Z son though will smoke a pipe occasionally, we watched the Russian version of Sherlock Holmes which made him carve an absurdly large pipe which I even took a few puffs of; my nicotine use is at the once yearly level, I'll share a ceremonial cigar and if I'm visiting a third world country I might get a pack of the local cigs)

it's a woman thing? wtf

You don't live in the city and see the cocktail hour, tini time signs and ads? Also, all the cocktail menus are for really sweet drinks.

I assume this is appealing to young or women drinkers?

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