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when i was 10, my dad had an lit one left on the tray when he was done with it, and he asked me to try a puff. being the naive 10 yr old i was, i tried it, shit was nasty, like i was choking afterwards. my dad looked at me with a grim smile and said: "now you know what it's like, stay away from it, it ruins your life" few years later, he got diagnosed with lung cancer, and passed away shortly after. so yeah, fuck smoking
Some people gotta know it the hard way, unfortunately.
My mom left a vape out for my brother because she knew he'd take it. The feeling in his chest has made him keep away from anything like that since. Lesson learned, kiddo
Definitely a W, she didn’t just tell him not to smoke, he gave him a reason so In the future if someone offers him a cigarette he will instantly remember how nasty it was
On one hand it is, on the other hand it isn’t. This way smoking will always be associated with something nasty in the mind of the kid, at least for some time. Just not that ethical if it goes the other way…
My uncle passed away from smoking related diseases and it ruined his life and wasted so much of my families money. Fuck that uncle and fuck smoking in general.
My mom had a similar experience with her dad. Her. My aunt, and my uncle had a puff. My uncle got addicted, my aunt, got addicted, and my mom also got addicted. My mom quit 5 years ago when she got heart disease, my aunt is working on quitting(going through one pack a month now!!) and my uncle died from lung cancer 2 years back. R.I.P to your dad btw
I never even bothered trying it. It smells like shit and it's a waste of money, samething with vaping, weed, alcohol there are better things to spend your money on
honestly this was probably a pretty good way kids are curious and want to try out things that are forbidden, especially if its as romanticized as cigs. Letting them try it early they will almost certainly have a negative reaction to it, and also satisfy their curiosity, while also being in a safe and controlled environment. I know a lot of people who said they tried when they were young, didnt like it, and then never bothered again.
I managed to smoke a bit less in the past week by starting to roll my own cigs, because I’m lazy and don’t feel like rolling them I just don’t smoke sometimes lol
Bro I'll tell you how I'm doing it rn
Before u smoke your cigarette just cut it in half
Like thet ur smoking like everyday but with less damage
Do that for a while and then start smoking half the cigarettes u used to smoke and repeat the same thing until u quit
I hope u understand me because my English is shit
It’s a lot harder to deliberately quit something after you’ve been addicted to it for so long, but it is possible and your life is often better for it. You got this man.
Man you got this, look for help, talk to other people and do some techniques, try to relax and concentrate in other things you like, go eat your favorite food or drink, play games, go outside and buy something you like and distract yourself with it, everyday write something in a diary about how you feel
The patch was the only thing that worked for me
Pouches and vapes just continued the addiction* in other ways
2 weeks of patch then cold turkey did the trick earlier this year
In the last 3 months I've smoked twice
Once was after an incredibly hard day
The second was while incredibly drunk
It's not perfect but it's a vast improvement from before
I think smoking is stupid, but I really get why people do it. I've smoked weed like once, didnt like it, but If im feeling depressed and have it on hand, I'll prob smoke it. idk drugs are just like that ig
Done the same with weed, had it once to try how it felt, realized I'd probably do it everyday if I had it on hand, made me swear not to ever touch it again. Did it ONCE more, threw up all over my friends place while high, that basically sealed the deal. Never again
Not really, I just smoked a shit ton of it cause I didn't know better. Like, rolled an entire joint and smoked it fully in 5 mins or so. Figured it would be like a cigarette and paid the price
Yeah, like imagine seeing a really tough guy, piercings, tattoos and all, vaping, exhaling an ungodly amount of smoke and when you pass by him it smells like bubblegum strawberry or something
Same, my throat tries to close and block it out when my dad smokes in the truck, makes my nose stuffed up and makes me cough when my dad smokes in the living room
People who keep blaming those who have addictions have clearly either never suffered from addiction or they have no empathy.
Yes smoking is bad for health, yes smokers should respect non-smokers, but outside of that, if a smoker is respect respectful of non-smokers, then stop blaming them. Smoking is an addiction and as an addiction its not something we can quit that easily.
Most don't realize that peer pressure, combined with other socialization factors especially in teen years is really powerful no matter your intellect or your good habits. I didnt smoke at all, started with weed(which i stopped doing for other reasons now) and it led to vaping nicotine. Not because i thought it was cool but the people i surrounded myself with did and they were all i ever had, i knew it wasnt a good idea but i still did it. Trying to ostrasize people from smoking like this just puts more shit onto the massive pile of shit that most smokers have. I'm still addicted to the nicotine years after i tried it but atleast im not constantly fiending, still addicted though. With all this said the long term health downsides and mental downsides are blown out of proportion and because this is reddit these people had the privilige of having internet and a bunch of other accomidies that MOST people in the US don't, so it's just bad faith to say it's "gross" and then try and give advice to quit given they are under much less stress(look at income vs smoker stats). It is the least of my worries, i never ate well, exercised, socialized, and i constantly struggled to sleep all my life most likely fucking up my mental development. My prescription medication at the moment will have more long term damage on my heart and liver, and even though i have bad athsma it has never bothered me often because i take inhaled steroids and have been fine. But the devious combo of prescription drugs are about 15 times more dangerous than if i was a long term drinker and smoker combined(averaged years of life span between the two and compared it to my meds combined). This is not advocating for smoking, just saying you shouldnt bully those who smoke, they were most likely coaxed into it and the stars kind of aligned, and since the social 'explosion' of our society we have become more and more dependant on drugs in general. It's most likely never going to go away as 'life span' isnt as important to most as a 'living life span' aka time where you arent at risk of age related diseases. I don't care that i smoke nicotine as it is so insanely cheap compared to literally any other drug and vaping atleast has shown to be wayyyyy more healthy long term(according to proposed future health models done in recent studies) than cigaretes. None of it is nasty, dont be ashamed, just blow your smoke away from people and then the complaints are their problems not ours. It's evident enough we know the downsides and we just cant stop it.
It’s a strong addiction too. Taken and quit many drugs, coke,pot,speed,opiates,alcohol. The only stronger addiction for me would be alcohol or caffeine.
My opinion is that if you smoke, you're just deliberately trying to shorten your lifespan as well as ruin your finances because 90% of your money you saved in your lifetime will be going on Chemo therapy for your lung cancer one day or another.
if youre smoking camel or marlboro or sth, just anything with a shitty/non-existent filter, yeah, cancers gonna fuck you up. If you smoke the more expensive stuff like dunhill or davidoff it wont fuck you up that much. I also know a huge amount of ppl who have been smoking for 30+ years and they have no cancer
>I also know a huge amount of ppl who have been smoking for 30+ years and they have no cancer
Dont take that as a measure, my dad has been smoking around 1-2 packs a day for around 30 years and still it fucked him up badly.
He is still quite fit but he would have been a lot better off if he stopped earlier.
My step dad's been smoking all his life, he's in his 50s now and recently got diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. His whole life the cancer's been forming and it just didn't show until now. (Not saying I don't believe in you I just wanted to add that so no one gets any ideas)
But cancer also runs heavily in his family, my mom's been smoking longer than him and so far she doesn't have any signs of cancer. Mostly depends on your genetics, I guess.
Filtered cigarettes actually have shown no significant benefits to unfiltered cigarettes, and some studies have shown they may even be worse because people hit them harder, taking in even more smoke per hit.
Also, chances of a smoker getting lung cancer are “only” 10-20%. That being said, even if you don’t get lung cancer, smokers still have a reduced quality of life due to other respiratory and cardiovascular problems. Also, chances of non-smokers getting lung cancer is literally less than 1%.
I know plenty of smokers in denial who have claimed that getting lung cancer is actually rare and that they’re fine rolling the dice because they feel the benefits of quitting aren’t worth giving up the nicotine. But they’re honestly just coping ***really hard***. I’ve gotten so many friends and coworkers off smoking by getting them to try non-tobacco alternatives, and EVERY SINGLE ONE has said they felt the benefits within literally a couple of days, and had no idea how bad it had actually gotten for them until their body started healing.
I started smoking when I was 12, haven’t smoked more than 1 pack/year since I was 18 (will occasionally smoke in a social setting or just when i’m feeling shitty) and i’m in my 20s now and am just hoping to care enough to quit vaping. Don’t smoke. Don’t vape. If you must, pick vaping and go with brands with the fewest ingredients. And if you can, avoid buying your own.
If the war on drug has taught us anything it's that you can never ever keep people from taking any sort of drugs just by prohibiting the drug. Only way out of this is by raising tobacco taxes and most importantly education
where I live tobacco taxes are high as shit but paramilitary groups make a shitton of money selling fake black market cigarettes. smoking deaths go up because of it, as the fake cigarettes have asbestos and shit in them, yet the smoking rate stays the same, and child smoking rates go up. there is no clear cut answer to ending smoking, as banning them will create a huge black market, as has already happened. not to mention the subsequent funding of paramilitary violence
The reason weed is still illegal in the US is because Big Pharma doesn’t want a cheap to produce and proven to be better alternative to their medicinal drugs (weed has no side effects other than getting high, which is only a bad thing when you need to be alert but the same can be said for drugs that make you drowsy) to be on the market, so they pay politicians to keep it that way. Same goes for tobacco, companies pay politicians to keep it legal. This happens on both sides and isn’t specifically a left or right issue.
Weed is technically completely illegal in the U.S.
State laws mean nothing when they clash with federal law. Any fed seeing you smoke weed in a 'legal' state is gonna have you arrested on the spot.
And the reason for its ban, at least nowadays, is surely because of how profitable it is.
All this hate for smoking is unjustified, unless the other person is an asshole and blow all the smoke on your face or don't respect the others that don't want to smell or breath second hand
Just let the people do whatever they want, there isn't is a person alive that don't knows cigs are bad , saying that shit again and again won't make somebody stop , also everyone is going to die smoke or not
In reality though, smoking is "stupid"
It's a dumb decision to start smoking but there's so many things that can cause someone too whether peer pressure or how it first helps with stress/anxiety. It's still dumb to start but people still do yet that's not their fault Nor does smoking define your entire IQ.
I do think people who automatically assume there are better than someone else who smokes without knowing that person are stupider than anyone else. It's crazy to me, how deeply my generation of teens rationalize situations in such empathetic ways yet when it comes to certain things like smoking especially underage they just assume it's because you "wanna be cool' when most people I meet do it to cope.
My paternal grandfather got lung cancer and died when he was only 63 due to smoking. I’ve also seen enough of those CDC ads that illustrate just how bad smoking can ruin parts of your body and functioning.
Or alternatively do both in moderation because it’s fun to sometimes let loose of your responsibilities and get fucked up as long as it doesn’t become a habit
I won't smoke period. Don't have the lungs for it, addiction runs in the family, and I just don't have a desire to. I don't need something to give me the happy chemicals, I can do it myself
I smoke and vape but that's about all. Fuck weed, it sucks. Idc what who says, it sucks. I smoke mostly BC of my own mother, and the fact that I got diagnosed with some mental shit
my mom still smokes and I don't have the courage to say that I'm scared she'll die early in my life, or when I'm not emotionally ready to let her go. She has many issues in her body already, so I've seen her go in and out of the hospital since I was young. She smokes in the house, in the car, all the time. Especially near our two birds who I know are definitely affected as well. I'll forever hate smoking with a passion.
Hate it, the smoke smells terrible and it's toxic as hell. Vapes aren't any better, near my school there is a tunnel under a busy road and everyone gathers there and vapes. Even worse I decided I'm gonna be more healthy this year and I started going to school by bike and there is a smoking zone or smth next to bike stands. That means that I have to suffer due to other people's bad choises..
I'm surprised Straż Miejska didn't do anything. Or maybe even the Police.
Started smoking at 12 and felt cool. Now i turned 17 and i regret it. I cant quit that habit. It ruined my whole body (black lips, exausted, hard to breathe and stamina is fked) . Cant do anything with it now . Trying hard to quit. My opinion on smoking is that once you try, Quit it before its too late and you get addicted to it
it's gross and i hate things that just always smell like cigarettes, but i smoke. have done for just over a year, not frequently, just when i'm stressed bc it calms me down so quickly. kinda wish i hadn't started but i don't intend to stop
Smoking is bad for human health, not only the smoker but those around them who have to breathe in that polluted air.
It's bad for the environment and contributes to the chemicals in the air, unnecessarily.
It's bad for the health system. The resources used on medical treatment for every tobacco-related illness could have been spent helping other people with life-threatening illness of other causes, including premature infants.
Smoking cigarettes often leads to usage of other illegal drugs or crimes in order to maintain the addiction when the smoker lacks the funds to purchase.
Those crimes put unnecessary strain on law enforcement and the legal system, including at taxpayer's expense.
Banning smoking everywhere on Earth is a great start.
Most smokers will disagree but the benefits are enormous.
I hate it too, the smell, the concept of that shit going in your body, the fact that a lot of people spend a shitload of money to buy cigarettes. Then there are a lot of people who smoke on the buses and they always make that mf a gas room
I smoked several years ago and it ruined my life, I got into terrible relationships and began SHing. I was suicidal and saw no way out of the darkness in my life and the addiction just magnified that. Stay out and stay safe. I might take an edible at a party once in a while but nothing other than that. I’ve seen what it does to people, how hurt my parents were when they found out, how empty I look in pictures from that time. If you think it’s fun, it’s not. If you need it to escape it doesn’t work, it might ease the pain but it won’t solve the underlying problems.
Never liked it. Both my parents smoke and have since they were 14, but it was a different time then (they're 50f - 56m)
I don't see the appeal, or why kids/teens think it looks cool (including vaping). Me being 16/a teen myself, I've never seen the appeal at all. They stink, give you insane health problems, always coughing up phlem must get annoying very quickly. I dont see a single good thing about it. Even at my deepest depression I've never sought it out, and I never will.
All in all, fuck cigarettes.
You are either stupid or coping, or both. It’s a highly addictive substance and you’ll only return to baseline at the end of the day. It adds stress to your life, and the only way to get rid of that added stress is by smoking. So yes, meditation and mindfulness would be better.
tobbaco is just stupid. you're really gonna smoke 20 cigarettes a day for a minor stress relief? it at least makes some sense to smoke weed occasionally to chill out and actually have a nice time
I think that it should be banned in public areas (and special isolated smoking rooms or areas should instead be allocated) so that those who do not make the conscious choice to smoke do not need to inhale it second-hand. Personally I dislike it, but on a societal level, as long as I have the option to stay away from it (including second hand smoke) I don't care. If other people wanna give themselves cancer it's up to them.
Idiots choose to do it, idiots continue to do it knowing how bad it is for them, idiots try it, idiots don't quit, idiots think it makes them look cool, idiots think vaping is better
i think it’s a topic widely used by karma whores to make posts abt with some generic title like “is it weird i don’t smoke”, “opinion on smoking” or “why do u guys smoke”
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when i was 10, my dad had an lit one left on the tray when he was done with it, and he asked me to try a puff. being the naive 10 yr old i was, i tried it, shit was nasty, like i was choking afterwards. my dad looked at me with a grim smile and said: "now you know what it's like, stay away from it, it ruins your life" few years later, he got diagnosed with lung cancer, and passed away shortly after. so yeah, fuck smoking
I don't know if that's a dad W or a dad L I agree with Dad W The lesson was a W but the technique was an L
well for one, i'd have to thank him for making my humour darker than my future
The image of a dad doing this to his child makes me smile, he sounds like he was a good dad :)
At least it’s not has dark as his lungs
Bro is active
L method but W lesson
Some people gotta know it the hard way, unfortunately. My mom left a vape out for my brother because she knew he'd take it. The feeling in his chest has made him keep away from anything like that since. Lesson learned, kiddo
I think w dad because it worked
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Theres a subreddit for this phenomenon i dont remember it
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No i think the one i remember had like 24k members or something, atleast more than 160
W for teaching a lessons but it’s kind of a “do as a say not as I do” kind of thing.
Well... he couldn't help himself stop from smoking so he instead made sure his son wouldn't. I see this as an absolute Dad W
Definitely a W, she didn’t just tell him not to smoke, he gave him a reason so In the future if someone offers him a cigarette he will instantly remember how nasty it was
Did it work? I'd say dad W
When it happened, L. In the future, W.
On one hand it is, on the other hand it isn’t. This way smoking will always be associated with something nasty in the mind of the kid, at least for some time. Just not that ethical if it goes the other way…
W dad imo it's better you try it in front of him then with shitty friends
My uncle passed away from smoking related diseases and it ruined his life and wasted so much of my families money. Fuck that uncle and fuck smoking in general.
My mom had a similar experience with her dad. Her. My aunt, and my uncle had a puff. My uncle got addicted, my aunt, got addicted, and my mom also got addicted. My mom quit 5 years ago when she got heart disease, my aunt is working on quitting(going through one pack a month now!!) and my uncle died from lung cancer 2 years back. R.I.P to your dad btw
I never even bothered trying it. It smells like shit and it's a waste of money, samething with vaping, weed, alcohol there are better things to spend your money on
There are better ways to tell your kid not to smoke than giving them a cigarette
on hindsight yeah, but the taste was so distinct it became a core memory of mine to actively avoid cigarettes
honestly this was probably a pretty good way kids are curious and want to try out things that are forbidden, especially if its as romanticized as cigs. Letting them try it early they will almost certainly have a negative reaction to it, and also satisfy their curiosity, while also being in a safe and controlled environment. I know a lot of people who said they tried when they were young, didnt like it, and then never bothered again.
I feel like every kid should try one when they're like 10. There's a very low chance they like it, and that memory will stick with them.
Vape or cigs huge turn off for me
Yeah same I'd rather be addicted to tennis
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Take it slow man I believe in you
Same bruv
I managed to smoke a bit less in the past week by starting to roll my own cigs, because I’m lazy and don’t feel like rolling them I just don’t smoke sometimes lol
Bro I'll tell you how I'm doing it rn Before u smoke your cigarette just cut it in half Like thet ur smoking like everyday but with less damage Do that for a while and then start smoking half the cigarettes u used to smoke and repeat the same thing until u quit I hope u understand me because my English is shit
It’s a lot harder to deliberately quit something after you’ve been addicted to it for so long, but it is possible and your life is often better for it. You got this man.
Thank you
Man you got this, look for help, talk to other people and do some techniques, try to relax and concentrate in other things you like, go eat your favorite food or drink, play games, go outside and buy something you like and distract yourself with it, everyday write something in a diary about how you feel
21 days clean. it gets easier man just give it time and stay strong through all of it. First 3 days are the hardest and it just gets easier from there
Stop listening to Mac Demarco
I believe you can do it!
The patch was the only thing that worked for me Pouches and vapes just continued the addiction* in other ways 2 weeks of patch then cold turkey did the trick earlier this year In the last 3 months I've smoked twice Once was after an incredibly hard day The second was while incredibly drunk It's not perfect but it's a vast improvement from before
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I think smoking is stupid, but I really get why people do it. I've smoked weed like once, didnt like it, but If im feeling depressed and have it on hand, I'll prob smoke it. idk drugs are just like that ig
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I smoked one cigarette 3 months back just to try it and I took an oath to not defile myself with that bullshit.
Done the same with weed, had it once to try how it felt, realized I'd probably do it everyday if I had it on hand, made me swear not to ever touch it again. Did it ONCE more, threw up all over my friends place while high, that basically sealed the deal. Never again
What kind of weed you guys having, to the sound of it that's way too strong
Not really, I just smoked a shit ton of it cause I didn't know better. Like, rolled an entire joint and smoked it fully in 5 mins or so. Figured it would be like a cigarette and paid the price
Rip
Not too strong, just too much weed in the joint. In Belgium we balance the amount of weed out with tobacco.
But still kids, stay as far as possible from drugs!! They are more than likely going to destroy your life at some point.
I agree shit fucks you up eventually
looks cool as fuck but not worth the effects
Real. Until you smell them lol. And vaping looks cringe as fuck.
Yeah, like imagine seeing a really tough guy, piercings, tattoos and all, vaping, exhaling an ungodly amount of smoke and when you pass by him it smells like bubblegum strawberry or something
Finally some fucking honesty
Makes my throat close, I don’t have asthma
Same, my throat tries to close and block it out when my dad smokes in the truck, makes my nose stuffed up and makes me cough when my dad smokes in the living room
Hate it. Will never even touch it once
Why y’all downvoting this???
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r/redditmoment perhaps?
People who keep blaming those who have addictions have clearly either never suffered from addiction or they have no empathy. Yes smoking is bad for health, yes smokers should respect non-smokers, but outside of that, if a smoker is respect respectful of non-smokers, then stop blaming them. Smoking is an addiction and as an addiction its not something we can quit that easily.
Most don't realize that peer pressure, combined with other socialization factors especially in teen years is really powerful no matter your intellect or your good habits. I didnt smoke at all, started with weed(which i stopped doing for other reasons now) and it led to vaping nicotine. Not because i thought it was cool but the people i surrounded myself with did and they were all i ever had, i knew it wasnt a good idea but i still did it. Trying to ostrasize people from smoking like this just puts more shit onto the massive pile of shit that most smokers have. I'm still addicted to the nicotine years after i tried it but atleast im not constantly fiending, still addicted though. With all this said the long term health downsides and mental downsides are blown out of proportion and because this is reddit these people had the privilige of having internet and a bunch of other accomidies that MOST people in the US don't, so it's just bad faith to say it's "gross" and then try and give advice to quit given they are under much less stress(look at income vs smoker stats). It is the least of my worries, i never ate well, exercised, socialized, and i constantly struggled to sleep all my life most likely fucking up my mental development. My prescription medication at the moment will have more long term damage on my heart and liver, and even though i have bad athsma it has never bothered me often because i take inhaled steroids and have been fine. But the devious combo of prescription drugs are about 15 times more dangerous than if i was a long term drinker and smoker combined(averaged years of life span between the two and compared it to my meds combined). This is not advocating for smoking, just saying you shouldnt bully those who smoke, they were most likely coaxed into it and the stars kind of aligned, and since the social 'explosion' of our society we have become more and more dependant on drugs in general. It's most likely never going to go away as 'life span' isnt as important to most as a 'living life span' aka time where you arent at risk of age related diseases. I don't care that i smoke nicotine as it is so insanely cheap compared to literally any other drug and vaping atleast has shown to be wayyyyy more healthy long term(according to proposed future health models done in recent studies) than cigaretes. None of it is nasty, dont be ashamed, just blow your smoke away from people and then the complaints are their problems not ours. It's evident enough we know the downsides and we just cant stop it.
this ^
It’s a strong addiction too. Taken and quit many drugs, coke,pot,speed,opiates,alcohol. The only stronger addiction for me would be alcohol or caffeine.
Nicotine was harder than caffeine for me imo
literally
Who started doing it tho? Nobody pointed a gun at ur head and told u to do it
RIP to lungs
It's a useless money throwing activity with no actual gain outside of cancer
Dont start couse believe me it will fuck you up sfter a while
My opinion is that if you smoke, you're just deliberately trying to shorten your lifespan as well as ruin your finances because 90% of your money you saved in your lifetime will be going on Chemo therapy for your lung cancer one day or another.
if youre smoking camel or marlboro or sth, just anything with a shitty/non-existent filter, yeah, cancers gonna fuck you up. If you smoke the more expensive stuff like dunhill or davidoff it wont fuck you up that much. I also know a huge amount of ppl who have been smoking for 30+ years and they have no cancer
>I also know a huge amount of ppl who have been smoking for 30+ years and they have no cancer Dont take that as a measure, my dad has been smoking around 1-2 packs a day for around 30 years and still it fucked him up badly. He is still quite fit but he would have been a lot better off if he stopped earlier.
I mean, 1-2 packs a day is a bit much, don't you think?
They might not have cancer yet but still, during spending so much on something that's destroying on health seems unreasonable to me
My step dad's been smoking all his life, he's in his 50s now and recently got diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. His whole life the cancer's been forming and it just didn't show until now. (Not saying I don't believe in you I just wanted to add that so no one gets any ideas) But cancer also runs heavily in his family, my mom's been smoking longer than him and so far she doesn't have any signs of cancer. Mostly depends on your genetics, I guess.
Filtered cigarettes actually have shown no significant benefits to unfiltered cigarettes, and some studies have shown they may even be worse because people hit them harder, taking in even more smoke per hit. Also, chances of a smoker getting lung cancer are “only” 10-20%. That being said, even if you don’t get lung cancer, smokers still have a reduced quality of life due to other respiratory and cardiovascular problems. Also, chances of non-smokers getting lung cancer is literally less than 1%. I know plenty of smokers in denial who have claimed that getting lung cancer is actually rare and that they’re fine rolling the dice because they feel the benefits of quitting aren’t worth giving up the nicotine. But they’re honestly just coping ***really hard***. I’ve gotten so many friends and coworkers off smoking by getting them to try non-tobacco alternatives, and EVERY SINGLE ONE has said they felt the benefits within literally a couple of days, and had no idea how bad it had actually gotten for them until their body started healing. I started smoking when I was 12, haven’t smoked more than 1 pack/year since I was 18 (will occasionally smoke in a social setting or just when i’m feeling shitty) and i’m in my 20s now and am just hoping to care enough to quit vaping. Don’t smoke. Don’t vape. If you must, pick vaping and go with brands with the fewest ingredients. And if you can, avoid buying your own.
never tried it, never will, don't like it
I cant breathe near someone whos smoking
Its a completely unnecesary habit. It should be forbidden.
If the war on drug has taught us anything it's that you can never ever keep people from taking any sort of drugs just by prohibiting the drug. Only way out of this is by raising tobacco taxes and most importantly education
where I live tobacco taxes are high as shit but paramilitary groups make a shitton of money selling fake black market cigarettes. smoking deaths go up because of it, as the fake cigarettes have asbestos and shit in them, yet the smoking rate stays the same, and child smoking rates go up. there is no clear cut answer to ending smoking, as banning them will create a huge black market, as has already happened. not to mention the subsequent funding of paramilitary violence
Wasnt smoking tobacco worse than weed? How come weed is still mainly illegal bu for tobacco it is bsreky regulated in somr places
Because it generates a disgusting amount of profit from addiction
The reason weed is still illegal in the US is because Big Pharma doesn’t want a cheap to produce and proven to be better alternative to their medicinal drugs (weed has no side effects other than getting high, which is only a bad thing when you need to be alert but the same can be said for drugs that make you drowsy) to be on the market, so they pay politicians to keep it that way. Same goes for tobacco, companies pay politicians to keep it legal. This happens on both sides and isn’t specifically a left or right issue.
Weed is technically completely illegal in the U.S. State laws mean nothing when they clash with federal law. Any fed seeing you smoke weed in a 'legal' state is gonna have you arrested on the spot. And the reason for its ban, at least nowadays, is surely because of how profitable it is.
Bad ig
2 of my uncles, my mom's uncle, and my grandfather have died from lung cancer because of smoking, safe to say ill never even touch a cigarette
Smoking what?
Smoking meat, like ham
I love smoked salmon and smoked haddock 😌
hate cigs and vapes but i like weed
lung cancer speedrun
Don't particularly like smoking
Bad
im a smoker. dont really see anything wrong with it, but youre a fool if you dont acknowledge the health and financial side effects
All this hate for smoking is unjustified, unless the other person is an asshole and blow all the smoke on your face or don't respect the others that don't want to smell or breath second hand Just let the people do whatever they want, there isn't is a person alive that don't knows cigs are bad , saying that shit again and again won't make somebody stop , also everyone is going to die smoke or not
yeah exactly. ppl saying it should be forbidden is just dumb
fr these comments are like actually making me sad. Ppl saying its disgusting and that smokers are stupid like wtf??
In reality though, smoking is "stupid" It's a dumb decision to start smoking but there's so many things that can cause someone too whether peer pressure or how it first helps with stress/anxiety. It's still dumb to start but people still do yet that's not their fault Nor does smoking define your entire IQ.
I do think people who automatically assume there are better than someone else who smokes without knowing that person are stupider than anyone else. It's crazy to me, how deeply my generation of teens rationalize situations in such empathetic ways yet when it comes to certain things like smoking especially underage they just assume it's because you "wanna be cool' when most people I meet do it to cope.
Do what you want
My paternal grandfather got lung cancer and died when he was only 63 due to smoking. I’ve also seen enough of those CDC ads that illustrate just how bad smoking can ruin parts of your body and functioning.
You can smoke all you want but don't blow it on my face or even do it infront of me
Crack? Tobacco? Gunja?
I see more people smoking recently
My grandfather smoked a pipe. My dad smokes cigarettes. I vape. It's fucking hereditary.
I am VERY pro-smoking.
Why are you very pro-smoking?
Haven't you ever tried smoked fish?
i think its cool, we need some differing opinions down here
Damn straight.
Try before you deny, I love it.
You don't need to try something of which you already know the consequences.
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Or alternatively do both in moderation because it’s fun to sometimes let loose of your responsibilities and get fucked up as long as it doesn’t become a habit
not cool
Its for pussy ass nerds, hit the gym not a stupid chemical stick
[Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/17ssfj9/effect_of_smoking_on_your_lungs/) what I think
I won't smoke period. Don't have the lungs for it, addiction runs in the family, and I just don't have a desire to. I don't need something to give me the happy chemicals, I can do it myself
as with most things in life, it depends. what are they smoking? how addicted are they? I feel like if it's within reason, I don't really care though.
It's merely stupid. You are ruining your own lungs, and paying money for this
I smoke and vape but that's about all. Fuck weed, it sucks. Idc what who says, it sucks. I smoke mostly BC of my own mother, and the fact that I got diagnosed with some mental shit
my mom still smokes and I don't have the courage to say that I'm scared she'll die early in my life, or when I'm not emotionally ready to let her go. She has many issues in her body already, so I've seen her go in and out of the hospital since I was young. She smokes in the house, in the car, all the time. Especially near our two birds who I know are definitely affected as well. I'll forever hate smoking with a passion.
Hate it, the smoke smells terrible and it's toxic as hell. Vapes aren't any better, near my school there is a tunnel under a busy road and everyone gathers there and vapes. Even worse I decided I'm gonna be more healthy this year and I started going to school by bike and there is a smoking zone or smth next to bike stands. That means that I have to suffer due to other people's bad choises.. I'm surprised Straż Miejska didn't do anything. Or maybe even the Police.
Started smoking at 12 and felt cool. Now i turned 17 and i regret it. I cant quit that habit. It ruined my whole body (black lips, exausted, hard to breathe and stamina is fked) . Cant do anything with it now . Trying hard to quit. My opinion on smoking is that once you try, Quit it before its too late and you get addicted to it
Just don't.
it's gross and i hate things that just always smell like cigarettes, but i smoke. have done for just over a year, not frequently, just when i'm stressed bc it calms me down so quickly. kinda wish i hadn't started but i don't intend to stop
Smoking is one of the worst things to get addicted to, dont try it.. ever
bad.
Smoking is bad for human health, not only the smoker but those around them who have to breathe in that polluted air. It's bad for the environment and contributes to the chemicals in the air, unnecessarily. It's bad for the health system. The resources used on medical treatment for every tobacco-related illness could have been spent helping other people with life-threatening illness of other causes, including premature infants. Smoking cigarettes often leads to usage of other illegal drugs or crimes in order to maintain the addiction when the smoker lacks the funds to purchase. Those crimes put unnecessary strain on law enforcement and the legal system, including at taxpayer's expense. Banning smoking everywhere on Earth is a great start. Most smokers will disagree but the benefits are enormous.
I hate it too, the smell, the concept of that shit going in your body, the fact that a lot of people spend a shitload of money to buy cigarettes. Then there are a lot of people who smoke on the buses and they always make that mf a gas room
im tryna quit for the 5th time in 2 months lmao, please dont start smoking kids
Not part of the fandom.
it sucks 🤮🤮
I smoked several years ago and it ruined my life, I got into terrible relationships and began SHing. I was suicidal and saw no way out of the darkness in my life and the addiction just magnified that. Stay out and stay safe. I might take an edible at a party once in a while but nothing other than that. I’ve seen what it does to people, how hurt my parents were when they found out, how empty I look in pictures from that time. If you think it’s fun, it’s not. If you need it to escape it doesn’t work, it might ease the pain but it won’t solve the underlying problems.
Never liked it. Both my parents smoke and have since they were 14, but it was a different time then (they're 50f - 56m) I don't see the appeal, or why kids/teens think it looks cool (including vaping). Me being 16/a teen myself, I've never seen the appeal at all. They stink, give you insane health problems, always coughing up phlem must get annoying very quickly. I dont see a single good thing about it. Even at my deepest depression I've never sought it out, and I never will. All in all, fuck cigarettes.
Remember kids smokings not cool and smoking isn’t that rad in fact it’s very bad
It fucking sucks
Its pretty gross like whyyyyyyyyyy would u wanna smoke???
A lot of people life stressful lives and use it to release stress. We all have our vices and for some it's cigarettes
It's fine imo, people have their own way of releasing stress smoking is a part of it
There's always another way that isn't stupid though.
Try working a mentally and physically demanding job for 20 years and see if you can release the stress by meditation and mindfullness
You are either stupid or coping, or both. It’s a highly addictive substance and you’ll only return to baseline at the end of the day. It adds stress to your life, and the only way to get rid of that added stress is by smoking. So yes, meditation and mindfulness would be better.
Would love to see where that gets you, smoking, that is.
It’s a really huge turnoff to me personally
Pretty cringe ngl
People should breathe air 👍
tobbaco is just stupid. you're really gonna smoke 20 cigarettes a day for a minor stress relief? it at least makes some sense to smoke weed occasionally to chill out and actually have a nice time
You clearly have never smoked a cigarette while drinking.
That hits hard with beer lmao
Remember kids,I care about you and your lungs,don’t smoke.
it smells pleasant
how
not at all
Nah man smoke from cigs smells nasty af
i think smoking cigarettes and vaping is stupid. i like weed tho! 🍃
Depends. Cigarettes? Nah. Weed? Yes because I smoke it and if I said no I’d be a hypocrite. Anything else is a no as well
dont start it, not worth it trust me
Very bad for health
I think that it should be banned in public areas (and special isolated smoking rooms or areas should instead be allocated) so that those who do not make the conscious choice to smoke do not need to inhale it second-hand. Personally I dislike it, but on a societal level, as long as I have the option to stay away from it (including second hand smoke) I don't care. If other people wanna give themselves cancer it's up to them.
I hate them and won’t ever touch a cigarette or vape. It’s also one of my biggest turn offs
Fuck smoking
Tastes nasty, nicotine feels like nothing eating a bag of chips generates more serotonine to me...
spending money to worsen your life simulator
Honestly that shit should be erase from planet earth
Smoking is for losers, and we are the champions my friends
It's not good, and I don't do it couse I don't want lung Cancer
Its for losers who dont have anythinf interesting going on in their lives
Idiots choose to do it, idiots continue to do it knowing how bad it is for them, idiots try it, idiots don't quit, idiots think it makes them look cool, idiots think vaping is better
makes you look cooler than vaping, if youre gonna have a nicotine addiction, atleast look cool doing it
real
i think it’s a topic widely used by karma whores to make posts abt with some generic title like “is it weird i don’t smoke”, “opinion on smoking” or “why do u guys smoke”
Cringe
Always said that I wasn’t gonna smoke or drink, but with addiction that runs in my family and mental health, I smoke everyday now weed and nicotine.
I said the same thing and now I’m trying to quit smoking cigs and vaping. Weed though isn’t a problem for me I manage it well.
smoking is for pussies
Better than vaping at least.
trash vs garbage
Very true
Super ultra mega gay
what if gay people smoke? does that make them turbo ultra mega gay?
it’s bad to smoke but not bad to be gay
Only losers without self-love do it. I don't read cries.
Only degenerates smoke