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[–] [email protected] 215 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I used to work with a guy that smoked and refused to wear a seat-belt. He carried a gun though, just in case his life was in danger.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

So if he loses control of his car and is heading at a tree, he can shoot the tree in self defense.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yes. The Maple Doctrine.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (8 children)

My work buddy will only eat meals made from single-ingredient foods because of "all the extra shit they put in there", and smokes a pack a week.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All this woke ass anti cigarette shit! Y'all have obviously never enjoyed a cup of coffee and a smoke on a still summer morn. A post coital puff as your lover plays her fingers through your chest hair like smoke on the water. Good lord I miss cigarettes!

But seriously never smoke, it smells terrible, will ruin your health, and is an all around terrible proposition.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, it was fun for a while. The good thing is, so many people stopped smoking in the last few years, that smoking stopped to be this special social thing.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why smoke when you can be addicted to the superiority complex that apparently comes with not smoking?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's not a complex if it's true.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would like to submit exhibit A in to evidence your honor

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I can't hear you over my 100% lung capacity. I am breathing so good right now. You wouldn't even believe.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah that shit annoys the fuck out of me. Society really needs to change the way we treat people who smoke.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (7 children)

They did... and it caused most people to stop smoking. Building that social stigma was like one of the best health marketing campaigns in history.

I say this as someone who used to and still does smoke time to time.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I completely agree, ads like this that say " it's bad for you", "you'll hurt the ones you love", "your family will miss you", it's all just anti-suicide pepole thinking they're soo much better than everyone else

blowing ones brains out shouldn't be portrayed as a bad thing, we need change and show we respect and accept suicide!

Also as a child of a heavy smoker, fuuuuuuck people who smoke around others, i don't care if you want to harm yourself, but stay the fuck away from other people while you do it

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Many people wouldn't mind other people smoking, as long as it doesn't impact non-smokers. But the thing is, smokers aren't really all that considerate about non-smokers. I attended a couple festivals over the past week. It's really annoying when you stand in packed crowd as a non-smoker and someone starts smoking. Sure, we are outside, but it literally makes breathing harder, especially for asthma patients.

I don't really see a way in which smokers and non-smokers can coexists without the smoker impacting the non-smoker. Even if you only smoke outside of the restaurant/bar, it will still be annoying and unhealthy to people entering the restaurant or bar.

I'm very curious with how things will develop in France, where they banned smoking in area's where children are present, which is virtually everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I quit by vaping off of cigarettes, and then gradually reducing the nicotine in vape juice until I was vaping 0 nicotine for a couple of months, then stopped altogether. Been nicotine free for several years now, and no cravings.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (6 children)

This is how I finally quit for good.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again. (Marc Maron)

But seriously, the one thing I'm proud of in my life is that I was able to quit smoking. Hard, but so worth it!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Same.

But whooooo damn do I occasionally miss having a smoke.

I've not smoked for more years than I smoked at this point, but the habit is in me. My brain only remembers the good parts.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (29 children)

I live alone and actively wish I could die. I'm not hurting anyone but myself.

I am glad that it's not cool with the younger generations, and that the whole vaping fad kinda died back.

Still though, the amount of self righteousness and lack of empathy from some non smokers really makes me glad that I will never have to hang out with those types of people.

Addiction is a hell of a thing, and when the alternative is worse than quitting, it's extremely difficult to quit.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

the amount of self righteousness and lack of empathy from some non smokers really makes me glad that I will never have to hang out with those types of people.

Youre seriously trying to guilt trip non-smokers here? Sure, addiction is horrible and some people are really struggling, but the majority of smokers I know dont give a shit that theyre actively killing others by blowing smoke into their faces on the street. Its ignorant and toxic behavior which is tolerated because of decades of brainwashing by the industry.

I have very little empathy for people who choose hurting others for their own convenience. Maybe start with empathy for poor people that struggle surviving because they are being exploited, or people that are systemically suppressed, then move on to empathy for smokers and other criminals.

I hope you get better, but your struggles dont excuse the millions of smokers actively harming their environments without a care in the world.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I live with two roommates in a flat. One of them smokes. Of course, he has to smoke indoors as well, as if the whole place is his (we got two balconies btw) . Can't describe when I get home after a long day in uni to come back to a flat that smells like a smoking friendly bar.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

yeah that's a dick move. I'm a smoker but i only smoke tobacco outdoors. i like being in a space i can smoke indoors, but it's not gonna be my place

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So start smoking and you won’t even notice.

Seriously though, as a lifelong smoker I do my best to keep it from being anyone else’s problem.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Don’t forget that smokers also get to ruin other people’s meals at restaurants. Not their own meals mind you - just the meals of others.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Where I live, you're not allowed to smoke in bars or restaurants.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I’ve smoked 3 packs a day by 25 y/o. Started with 17. stopped with 27. I don’t regret stopping, I feel better. But I miss it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

3 whole fucking packs a DAY? Did you even breathe normal air?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I had the luxury to smoke on my job. I smoked a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Joke is on you - I only smoke in elementary schools, so my house is practically tar-free. Now what, science man?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

When I was a teenager in the 90s, I once dated someone whom I thought otherwise to be a smart and collected girl.

Then I watched her and her friend rummage the side streets for half smoked cigarette butts that people had disposed of out their car windows. The bliss in their eyes when they lit up a half smoked one.

Looking through the eyes of an adult now, it makes me wonder why I continued to try and strike a habit myself over the next 2 years. Fortunate for me, it never seemed like my drug of choice, though I did find others.

Being addicted to anything will make you realize just how fragile “giving a shit” really is.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

tfw you share balcony with smoking neighbour and all smoke goes to your room where you work...

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I smoked from the time I was 15, until I was 33. I got a prescription for something called Chantix that worked really well for me to quit permanently.

It worked well for a few people I knew, but one guy said it made him really depressed / suicidal.

Chantix isn’t available anymore because of something that was in it that might cause cancer, but there’s a generic form of it called varenicline that may or may not be available in your country. Ask your doctor maybe if there’s a pill that will help you quit.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (13 children)

I stopped smoking a while ago now.. but boy do I miss it sometimes lol.

Don't smoke kids.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just one nail of many in my mom's coffin

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nearly all of my family smokes, and I fucking hate it. There were countless times, as far as I can remember, when I tried to do something with my dad, it was nice for a while, then he goes for a 'quick smoke' and stays there forever.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I’ve read last week that tobacco is radium rich and decomposes to polonium and radon - cigarettes are radioactive and it contributes to its nasty effects on the lungs

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think people smoke because they feel like shit doing so, quite the opposite imo

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This seems to ignore the important facts that smoking is A.) Cool and B.) Sexy.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I dunno, teenagers all smoke and they seem pretty on the ball.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I actually enjoy a good cigar every once in a great while. I do not like smelling like smoke so I either go outside or to the "smoke shack" in my basement which has a fan that sucks all the smoke outside.

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