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Originally Posted by mbovenka
Why not? It was completely normal in 1982, and at that point there was no real reason to think that would change.
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No, it was obvious by 1960s it was killing people and Something Would Be done.
Playground nicknames in the mid 1960s: coffin nails (a pun).
Big Tobacco was already spending a fortune on lobbying.
In 1929, Fritz Lickint of Dresden, Germany, published a paper containing formal statistical evidence of a lung cancer–tobacco link.
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Richard Doll in 1950 published research in the British Medical Journal showing a close link between smoking and lung cancer.[32] Four years later, in 1954 the British Doctors Study, a study of some 40 thousand doctors over 20 years, confirmed the link, based on which the government issued advice that smoking and lung cancer rates were related.[33][34] In 1964 the United States Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health demonstrated the relationship between smoking and cancer.[35] Further reports confirmed this link in the 1980s and concluded in 1986 that passive smoking was also harmful.
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Wikipedia
So the writer was careless, or a keen smoker.