{"id":24475,"date":"2021-01-29T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/smokings-long-decline-ended-in-2020#id28947"},"modified":"2021-01-29T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:51:00","slug":"before-the-pandemic-us-cigarette-unit-sales-had-been-falling-at-an-accelerating-rate-not-so-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/before-the-pandemic-us-cigarette-unit-sales-had-been-falling-at-an-accelerating-rate-not-so-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the pandemic, US cigarette unit sales had been falling at an accelerating rate. Not so in 2020."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>\n<p>          Before the pandemic, US cigarette unit sales had been falling at an accelerating rate. Not so in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/during-covid-19-lockdowns-people-went-back-to-smoking-11611829803\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/smokings-long-decline-ended-in-2020\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>          Before the pandemic, US cigarette unit sales had been falling at an accelerating rate. Not so in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>    &#x21A9;&#xFE0E; The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p>  View Post &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24476,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24475\/revisions\/24476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}