vaping is the new cool thing. I wasn't super socially present through high school, but I know that lots of the kids there do vape in the bathrooms and stuff and it's seen as cool somehow
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I just watched Casablanca for the first time a couple of days ago, and as someone that hates smoking, I just don't get how it came to be everywhere back in the day. Ingrid Bergman is probably the only non-smoker in the entire movie! Both her (breast, 69) and Humphrey Bogart (esophageal, 57) died of cancer.
Growing up with two smoking parents that'd both gladly hotbox their kids, my brother and I, when we drove anywhere was just awful. I really don't get how you can do that to other people without feeling ashamed.
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You’ve obviously never been a smoker 🚬 sweet sweet nicotine, i miss u so!
Fuck I miss cigarettes!
I feel this so hard lol. I have never returned to smoking but vaping was such a ‘cleaner’ way to get a nic high. I tell myself that nicotine has power over me and if someone put a vape in front of me I’d hit it in a heartbeat
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Addiction is a helluva drug!
Second line points out addiction, then goes on to ask why? That's a special kind of stupidity on its own.
Tobacco is generally a pretty lame drug, but some forms of it at least smell somewhat good (e.g. waterpipes (though I think a lot of the 'smells good' is additives), or the old-fashioned smoking pipes).
Lol as a non smoker when I take a rip I feel so lightheaded and awesome. No wonder people get addicted
I know what you mean. As a non drinker I love getting drunk every week.
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I don't smoke myself but you need to know that cigarettes are super-processed crap. They intentionally add more poisonous shit to them. Even I like the smell of loose leaf tobacco smoked in a pipe, or in a quality cigar. The reason people first started smoking tobacco is because it smells good. But you're right that's not cigarettes.
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I got hooked at first because as teenagers when we smoked weed we would smoke it cut with nicotine.
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I think Nicotine has a stimulant effect, so there is that. Other than that, yea, the marketing devils get to them.
There also is a big social aspect of taking smoke breaks together.
You can simply take the break and socialize without the smoking part.
In theory, but that's not really how humans work.
The marketing to get the first puff, then the nicotine to keep you hooked.
Picking up girls and making friends mostly.
The rest is to get away from dancing/ loud music/ heat.
My ideal place to go out would be a location with no dancefloor just a bar and a smoking area where you can't smoke. Unfortunately the vibe of the smoking area just hits differently and no one can explain it. It cannot be replicated. It's magic in a bottle.
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cool another post on Lemmy about not understanding addiction
Its about not understanding why people get into it in the first place, not why they don't quit after. You can't have an addiction if you never try it in the first place.
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Because drugs make you feel good?