One track bemoans the prevalence of Dallas on TV and how everything stops when it's on, while another, "Keep the City Clean", laments the issues facing smokers downtown and questions the quality of food at the local branch of McDonald's.
Smokers face fines of $1,000 for smoking and $2,000 for tampering with smoke detectors in the lavatories.
Shisha, the term most often used to refer to flavored hookah tobacco, produces tar when burned, which may cause a range of health problems similar to those that cigarette smokers face.
But in Japan, where the tobacco industry is largely state-run, the vast numbers of smokers face no sterner warning than this pleasant request: "Be careful not to smoke too much as it might injure your health".
A forthcoming paper by two scholars (Jonathan Gruber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Botond Koszegi of the University of California) notes that smokers face a familiar choice between short-term pleasure and a long-term desire to quit.
According to a second study in the same journal, women smokers face a 17.8 times greater risk of dying of lung cancer, than women who do not smoke; men who smoke are at 14.6 times greater risk to die of lung cancer than men who don't.
Smokers face half the risk of developing Parkinsons disease as those who have never smoked.
Switching to e-cigarettes won't solve all the health problems smokers face.
Despite the struggles that hard-core smokers face, cold turkey advocates believe that scarce public health funding should be redirected away from clinical efforts for individual smokers.
"Smokers face physical, environmental and social barriers to quitting," lead study author Elyse Park, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said by email.
Young adult smokers face unique challenges in achieving smoking abstinence and accordingly, smoking cessation programs designed for young smokers must develop unique strategies to overcome those challenges.
