Thread 23240394

For as long as I lived, I grew up with parents and friends telling me how cigarettes are evil and will kill me in a few years of using them, but I always wondered why I had so many old relatives addicted to smoking, shouldn't they be dead? Previous generations also smoked a lot, why are they still alive? After looking it up, I also found out they increase testosterone and help you lose weight, but not without said articles stressing to me how that's a just a rumour, how it has side effects, and overall an almost artificial effort to stop me from thinking it has any benefit whatsover. The only real bad part that I could verify by myself is the bad smell, is this smoking outrage complete bullshit?

>>23240394 (OP)
I smoke in my bathroom. Every once in a while, I will wipe down my mirror, and it's not pretty.

>>23240394 (OP)
Smoking gives me a bloody cough and i don't want to spend so much money on something that is so unhealthy, but i admit it looks cool as fuck. Like, in fight club. It gives aura and has a certain vibe. If there were healthy cigarettes i'd smoke

It wrecks your circulation by constricting the blood vessels and basically wears everything out.
Nicotine is an organic pesticide plants use to kill bugs

>>23240394 (OP)
>that old person is still smoking why isnt he dead??
because all his other smoking friends are already dead and he's the last survivor

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>>514791505
What's sage?

>>23240394 (OP)
Cigarettes have arsenic, cadmium, formaldehyde, benzene, lead, ammonia and cyanide in them. They're incredibly toxic and prematurely kill two thirds of people that smoke them. Smoke them if you're retarded, nobody will stop you. But all the information about how dangerous they are is out there for you to read or ignore at your peril

>>23240398
50% of men smoked in 1965 america, wouldn't the mass dying be really noticeable?

>>23240394 (OP)
No, but it does age your skin.
My grandma smoked although she wasn't that old when she quit. Lived to 100.

Smoking prevents dementia onset and relie>>23240395
ves anxiety.
Big Pharma hates that,

>>23240394 (OP)
I'd pick up smoking again if it didnt make me gag. Just suddenly one day trying to smoke a cigarette and I couldnt keep it down. Ever since I haven't smoked. Shit ducks. Loved smoking but just cant do it anymore

>>23240396
>aura
>vibe
Gen Z was a mistake.

>>23240404
this. "le smoking is bad" is a big pharma (((psyop))).

That said, I'm dubious about the dementia claim - in this case, correlation doesn't really prove causation. If you have dementia, at some point you're going to forget that you want to smoke, and nobody's gonna remind you. So you quit but don't know that you've quit.

Nicotine is GOOD and gives you brain gainz.

>>23240394 (OP)
If you want to smoke, avoid packed cigs, roll your own and keep it at 1 cig a day.
I don't think there's any health benefit to smoking but you can certainly minimize the damage it causes by choosing good paper and nice tobacco, a pipe is also good.

>>23240405
Same here, smoked cigs from 16 -27 and suddenly one day I puked from it, and every time I've tried since makes me dry heave

>>23240394 (OP)
built for BWC

>>23240394 (OP)
very very very bad for you
You can tell when a senior citizen has been a smoker because it ages your face horribly

>>23240394 (OP)
Short answer yes

Long answer:

it ruins your skin
it gives you cancer
it stinks up everything
it fucks with your circulation=heart attack
it literally gives you a higher does of radiation than a scan or working at a power plant or being part of the iss crew (most people dont even know smoking gives you radiation)

and you pay with your money for all that on top of everything

>>23240394 (OP)
Nicotine makes you immune to fear-based propaganda.

>>23240394 (OP)
The world's oldest verified person in history (Jeanne Calment) smoked cigarettes after every meal, for over 100 years. No cancer. Shje lived to be 122

>>23240394 (OP)
No, it's great. It kills pensioners before they get to leech infinite resources off the young.

>>23240401
All the health benefits of nicotine can be aquired through chewing nicotine gum. Thinking that you need to inhale straight poison to boost your t is pantshittng retarded. Smoking is just an aesthetic on the right, guys think it makes them look tough and masculine, like how leftists grow beards to hide the weak chins.

>>514791505
Bump
>>23240400
It posts your message without bumping the thread. Reddit refugees who are new here seem to think it's a downvote

>>23240415
She should have been introduced to opioids when she turned 60.

>>23240394 (OP)
>is smoke inhalation bad for you
Politics?

>>23240419
when im 65 im gonna smoke doobs all day every day

>>23240394 (OP)
i am more bothered about why bigPharma is so butthurt over this thread that it spammed blacked porn.

smoking is halal n no one is gonna tell me otherwise.

Anyone have any advice on quitting?
Smoked the last of the pack less than 10 minutes ago. Smoke 4 cigarettes a day on average.

>>23240394 (OP)
My grandpa died of lungs cancer at 72 because he start to smoke when he was a kid cigs without filters, my dad is 68 and also start to smoke when he was 9 or 10 and is already a couple or more years that he has a chronic cough , I think he's gonna die at the same age of his father.
Btw if you smoke remember to add to your diet more vit C rich food, because for reduce the oxidation that smoke create in your body you need more vit C

>>23240423
nicotine gum n patches . worked for sweden but nordic cunts also subsidised that, instead of making u pay for bigPharma prices or fuck your insurance.

>>23240394 (OP)
tar is gross and highly carcinogenic so yes

nicotine is okay though, but has also has induced tumors in mice

>>23240420
this is political because I'm talking about the possible manipulation of public opinion towards smoking

It's the additives that kill you, otherwise the American Indians would all be dead long before Columbus.

>>23240428
You know they use smokers lungs in transplants and those on the left are pigs lungs that were stained.

>>23240394 (OP)
I have the same opinion, basically.
Cigs have been demonized to Hell and back but people in France used to drink like motherfuckers and smoke non stop and they built one of the best civilization ever and they didn't really die faster.
I smoke inside with the windows closed. Smoking is a pleasure for me so I'm not gonna do it in the cold outside like a dog peeing. I smoke inside, while watching my favorite movies or playing my favorite bideos and my walls have never became yellow (everybody says : "dude, the walls stink and they become yellow") and the room smells good.

Then again I smoke maybe one cig a day, sometimes not at all.

I started smoking at 18 I'm 35 now. 1 pack a day
The price is insane, I wish I didn't smoke it's just a money burner

>>23240430
Sure thing buddy. Breathing in tar is healthy.

>>23240394 (OP)
the only thing smokers deserve, SPECIFICALLY those smoking around children, is a nuclear holocaust

>>23240432
The price has become absolutely fucking mental though, that's for sure.

>>23240433
You breathe worse every day.
If you're older you breathed a ton of lead and arsenic,if you are younger your skies have been filled with chemicals for decades from aircraft.

Oh no but the cigarettes! They will surely kill you.

>>23240428
oh no my lungs that i'll hopefully never see might go a different colour. of all the problems with smoking this is the least of them

no cigarettes are very healthy for brazilians and other brown people, hard drugs and inhuman amounts of alcohol are beneficial for your kind too

>>23240404
>relieves anxiety

It GIVES me anxiety (for like 10 mins), always has. That's why I usually only smoke in social situations, where there's enough stimulation to distract me, or alcohol to mitigate the anxiety. Cigs only feel really good when I have some downer to suppress the anxiety. Or when I'm on the move, and then it's just a mindless habbit, that doesn't even seem to have any effect, other than giving me something to do while walking/waiting and maybe make me look cool.

Amohetamine makes me hyperfocused and also anxious, and I just end up procrastinating on some bullshit, but really hard and really long (unless it makes me euphoric, but this leads to hours of walking around in circles and self-talk in my head, followed by enthusiastic hyperfocus on some bullshit). Same story with caffeine (less intense, obviously), also sweat-city.

Only cocaine or to a lesser degree ritalin/methylphenidate make me focused without giving me anxiety, and only in low doses (and in the case of cocaine, only lab-tested stuff with high purity and no noticable psychoactive residues/impurities/cuts).

Opiates were god-tier for anxiety, focus and overall energy. At least if the tolerance is kept in check, but obviously it will zapp your motivation and make you emotionally numb, long term. So also no solution (obviously).

Is there anyone here, that can identify/identify *with* this "pattern" of physical/psychological responses and provide some kind of protip from their own experience or medical/pharmacological expertise?

>>23240394 (OP)
I smoke imported cloves. They’re about as expensive as the regular cigs here that aren’t the cheap stuff. I like them because I prefer the sweet taste of clove tobacco compared to just bitter tobacco but then I sometimes want that bitterness so in the end I always get bored of smoking. The nicotine buzz doesn’t do a lot for me, makes me kinda sleepy. I started smoking for fun after 27 so I believe I can’t get addicted. Now I’m almost 31, I usually smoke 1-2 cigs a day if I don’t force myself to do it.