Smoking

Smoking is a ritualistic part of life post-collapse, the tradition goes back to the days of the Great Patriotic War, where soldiers were fully convinced that they 'felt revitalized' afterwards; such is claimed even until today. In fact, much like the soldiers then, most have to roll their own cigarettes today. As life is unimaginably stressful and life expectancy is extremely low, very few people (excluding prepubescent children, asthmatics, and the like) refuse cigarettes even if they don't believe in such claimed effects.

The majority of surviving tobacco is synthetic, 'new-production', or both.

E-cigarette products are also not entirely uncommon, however with a general lack of reliable (i.e. safe to use) juice and replacement parts, systems designed before the collapse, have become largely unusable. Pods were mass manufactured in incredible numbers to the point that only a few dozen rubles could get you a few days worth of clouds. Many of these single use pods survive until today.

In spite of this, many people simply refuse to consider the use of E-cigarettes due to a lack of power sources to recharge the devices as well as the post-freeze sentiment of a trust in fire over electricity as well as technology as a whole. Afterall, fire kept men warm at night for millennia where electricity led to mankind's fall.

Nicotine replacement products have been long exhausted and in the wake of safer cigarettes and most other related 'smokes' have been long unpopular in usage even before the freeze. Without the risks posed by smoking in the old world or even fewer risks (dismissable as irrelevant with all other medical hardships considered) there simply was no tangible reason to stop and replace smoking for the average user of tobacco, and such clearly remains so.