Are Cigarettes an Inferior Good

Cigarettes companies one among the few companies that weathered well the Great Recession in the late 2010s and their sales have remained stable during the early stages of the coronavirus recession (WSJ, March 2020). The article also noted that demand for cigarettes may be decreasing because growing concerns about the adverse impact on the smoker's health and that demand is not decreasing like other products because of social distancing because cigarettes are "antisocial".