Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners

I'm curious if habits like smoking will ever make a resurgence. Seems like the rates keep going down. I can't imagine we'll ever go back to a time where smoking in restaurants or bars is normalized again.

Tobacco use is in a minor resurgence via "vapes". (The Juul brand is tobacco forward from a traditional "tobacco road" company.) Vapes got much of their popularity for being loopholes in smoking bans/smoking taxes in many municipalities. A lot of those loopholes have closed/are closing, but there is still a market for vape products, including tobacco, and other things for people that that think they can get away with "discreetly" smoking in restaurants and bars anyway despite it being illegal.

On a different angle, some states with old "cigar cultures" have been bringing back recreational smoking inside designated restaurants/bars/smoking clubs. It's a bit of a licensing situation like liquor licenses where only so many are allowed in a neighborhood and neighbors can veto if they are too close to residences. So smoking can get a bit of a hipster resurgence in such places. Such places are not for me, but I welcome them as a regulated market.