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Hindsight 2070: We asked 15 experts, “What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?” Here’s what they told us.
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1022" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18226563/50-years-wrong-side-of-history-future-prediction" target="_blank"><strong>Hindsight 2070: We asked 15 experts, “What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?” Here’s what they told us. - Vox</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>Predicting society’s moral evolution on eating meat, kids playing football, 401(k)s, and more. </em></p><p></p><p>Some 50 years ago, in 1964, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894634/" target="_blank">42 percent of Americans</a> smoked cigarettes. Smoking in bars and offices was normal and cigarettes were given to soldiers as part of military rations. Half of American physicians smoked. Ads for cigarettes bombarded the American public. That year, the surgeon general released a report outlining the health risks of smoking. Two years later, only 40 percent of Americans said that they believed smoking was a major cause of cancer.</p><p></p><p>Today, we know that smoking is bad for our health. We’ve banned smoking in most indoor public spaces. We stopped allowing tobacco companies to advertise and forced them to put warning labels on cigarette boxes. By 2001, 71 percent of the country said they recognized smoking was a major cause of cancer, and by 2017, the rate of smokers dropped to <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/adult_data/cig_smoking/index.htm" target="_blank">14 percent</a>. The habit is now looked at as a relic of the past, something we’ve come to accept as unquestionably harmful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1022, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18226563/50-years-wrong-side-of-history-future-prediction'][B]Hindsight 2070: We asked 15 experts, “What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?” Here’s what they told us. - Vox[/B][/URL] [I]Predicting society’s moral evolution on eating meat, kids playing football, 401(k)s, and more. [/I] Some 50 years ago, in 1964, [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894634/']42 percent of Americans[/URL] smoked cigarettes. Smoking in bars and offices was normal and cigarettes were given to soldiers as part of military rations. Half of American physicians smoked. Ads for cigarettes bombarded the American public. That year, the surgeon general released a report outlining the health risks of smoking. Two years later, only 40 percent of Americans said that they believed smoking was a major cause of cancer. Today, we know that smoking is bad for our health. We’ve banned smoking in most indoor public spaces. We stopped allowing tobacco companies to advertise and forced them to put warning labels on cigarette boxes. By 2001, 71 percent of the country said they recognized smoking was a major cause of cancer, and by 2017, the rate of smokers dropped to [URL='https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/adult_data/cig_smoking/index.htm']14 percent[/URL]. The habit is now looked at as a relic of the past, something we’ve come to accept as unquestionably harmful. [/QUOTE]
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