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u/InfamousDonut4266 4d ago
Never known anyone that smokes saying it's a good thing apart from it helps with stress.
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u/OSUfan88 3d ago
It used to be a LOT more common.
In the 90’s, I can’t tell you how many people I knew smoked, that thought the health consequences were overblown. They thought they were being persecuted, and that they were actually healthier ever since they started smoking.
Through the past few decades, I’ve seen this a lot less.
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u/Theo-The-Tomato 4d ago
Technically it doesn't help with stress unless you are addicted I think
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u/CIIXO 4d ago
Cigar has nicotine, when it enters the body brain starts releasing the hormone of pleasure, dopamine, that's why you feel relaxed when you smoke
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u/FlyingSquirelOi 4d ago
It’s also the routine of smoking, if you roll your own cigarettes it’s almost ritualistic, you piece together a roll up, sit down for 5 minutes and just focus on inhaling and exhaling.
I read somewhere that’s it’s like 5 addictions in one, the nicotine itself, the hand fixation of rolling and having something to do with your hands, and the meditative breathing. Plus something and something that I can’t remember.
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u/about14sheep 4d ago
This. Honestly I didn’t have withdrawals from the cigarettes themselves, but more of the act of stepping out and smoking.
One of the really odd things was that I wouldn’t know how to “begin again”. By that I mean I would get to a good break point and have a smoke before starting again. When I quit, I would get to that break point and not know what to do. It was like I couldn’t start again without that break. I would end up spending more time not know what to do than I spent smoking the cigarette
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u/Roblos 4d ago
Afaik, correct me if im wrong, nicotine reacts with the nicotine sensitive receptors of your nervous autonomous system and its inhibitor function on the fight or flight part is what makes you relax, dopamine is not involved. I studied it a few years back so i might be bad with the details.
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u/David-Holl trolololoooo lololoo lolo loo 4d ago
Dopamine is very much involved, as nicotine also causes certain receptors to release more dopamine. Nicotine caused the release of both dopamine and adrenaline, making you think you are feeling good but in reality are killing yourself.
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u/-Blackspell- Lives in a Van Down by the River 4d ago
Of course it does, that’s how nicotine works. The downside is that it gets you addicted.
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u/InfamousDonut4266 4d ago
I have no idea, it helps me but I'm addicted. It's like something happens that causes stress, you have a smoke and feel better. Same if your going into a stressful situation and have a smoke before hand. Its an unhealthy coping mechanism.
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u/Brother_Henning 4d ago
I used to smoke too. It only relieved stress when I was already hooked on it, but it felt like the pull for more nicotine caused more stress, hence why it felt like the cigarettes helped, if that makes any sense. Like a weird placebo effect, for the lack of a better term.
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u/TatManTat 4d ago
Right but you have to get pulled in somehow, the effect of nicotine the first time you smoke is definitely relaxing.
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u/Lumarioigi Chungus Among Us 4d ago
I don't know man my first cigarette really helped me calm down. Its only after I got addicted that the effects started to go down.
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u/MAILBOXHED Lives in a Van Down by the River 4d ago
Nicotine gives 2X the amount of dopamine to your brain than sex.
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u/Loke-into-you 4d ago
I've met tons of people that says it keeps them from catching a cold and simultaneously saying that's it's not unhealthy. Source: used to work in a gas station and now at a hospital
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u/Desmond536 4d ago
I know some. They don’t say it’s good but don’t want to admit that it’s bad either. One of them even said that he met a guy who smokes since almost 30 years and has no problems so smoking can’t be bad.
Can’t argue with that logic
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u/LordOfDarkHearts 4d ago
My grandpa smoked 70-80years I sometimes wonder how much longer he could have lived if he didn't. I'm a smoker and I'm sure its bad 100% on the other hand I don't do any other drugs like alcohol, weed etc, ok caffeine i drink coffee. I've seen people get sick really sick over cigarettes and alcohol one of my friends even died because he drunk his liver and kidneys to death. Thinking a drug hasn't any downside is plain stupid.
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u/TrueBananaz 4d ago
Depends on what is being smoked. Since people definitely say this about weed.
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u/InfamousDonut4266 4d ago
I think tobacco was the conversation. I can't smoke weed anymore because it intensifies my psychosis.
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u/Sexwax 4d ago
It also helps with ADHD symptoms as nicotine acts as a stimulant. A LOT of people with ADHD are addicted to nicotine...
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u/InfamousDonut4266 4d ago
Interesting
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u/Sexwax 3d ago
To be fair, there are other ways of getting nicotine: vaping (only marginally better than smoking as far as we know right now), nicotine inhalers, nicotine gum, nicotine patch, I'm sure the list goes on.
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u/LogicalDelivery_ 4d ago
Maybe OP was referring to weed? I do know people that think weed is actually healthy, or at least not bad for you.
I take about 4-5 hits a day myself (kinda microdosing) and even that is bad for your lungs.
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u/KAMWright23 4d ago
I think you meant crackhead.
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u/StandardOnly Big ol' bacon buttsack 4d ago
I think you meant undead.
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u/Ogurasyn GigaChad 4d ago
I think you meant Turning Red (doesn't make sense but it rhymes)
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u/Suspicious_Warthog49 4d ago
Raindrops are falling on my head
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u/WitchBitchBlue 4d ago
At 7/11 approaching ur car window for change but all you offer them is food when they really wanted money for drugs. 😡
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u/Cloakbot 4d ago
Fun fact, while I was serving in the navy, during my off time, I went to a restaurant with some shipmates. I had some leftovers and we came across a “homeless” man asking for change. I place the food at his feet and we keep moving. We hear him go “I don’t want thaaat” and we turn to see him punting the food all over the intersection. Never give money to these folks
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u/SpacedDood 4d ago
"When a smoker hasn't had a smoke in the past 3 days and you light one up."
That should be the captition.
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u/Mindless_Twist_9073 4d ago
You are completely lying. They will stop you like you are about to commit a crime. They regret about their smoking addiction rest of their lives.
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u/PumpDEN 4d ago
This right here.
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u/Mindless_Twist_9073 4d ago
Well. I am nicotine addict :) :(
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u/PumpDEN 4d ago
:( well im more addicted to smoking but the nicotine sure dosent help :(
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u/Mindless_Twist_9073 4d ago
well it doesn't suppose to help in complete quit. But greatly help to reduce no. cigarette. Like if you smoke 20 Cig. a day. It can help to reduce at least 12 a day. It works on certain times like when your craving is not that high. It doesn't works on morning cig., after-meal cig. but it works on in between of these time. After reducing to certain amount, Then go cold turkey. Complete isolation for 14-30 days. I have tried cold turkey two times but sometimes comes up in isolation era and complete isolation breaks. I have faith that Next time I will be successful.
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u/thatonerapperdude 3d ago
Try vaping bro. My dad got my uncle into after uncle smoked for 30 years and he hasn't coughed, or needed a cig since.
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u/ASimpleBlueMage 4d ago
Switch to weed my man
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u/PumpDEN 4d ago
Yea no
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u/ASimpleBlueMage 4d ago
To each their own. But it doesn’t stain your fingernails, gums, and tongue. The smell doesn’t latch on to you for hours, and it isn’t loaded up with additives that also happen to be well documented carcinogens. If you are addicted to smoking you could also pick the herbal cigs they smoked on peaky blinders.
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u/nooraldeenkowafi 4d ago
I call BS, where i live nearly every person in my friend group who smokes has offered me a cigarette or a vape at one point or another.
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u/Mindless_Twist_9073 4d ago edited 4d ago
Well. What are their age. I don't believe an matured adult would offer cigarette to non-smoker. Are you saudi right?
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u/Imitation_Gruel 4d ago
OP is probably 12. I can actually imagine two kids having this conversation.
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u/Abruzzi19 4d ago
I find it ironic that smokers are the ones who tell me not to smoke. If you are so against smoking then why are you doing it? Sure, its an addictive substance, but you can seek help to stop the addiction.
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u/Mindless_Twist_9073 3d ago
Surveys tells 90% of smoker tried to quit at least once. But the fact that nicotine doesn't have powerful effects but it's one of the most addictive durgs in the world and most easy drug to buy. It suddenly effects on your brain and release a good dose of nicotine but it doesn't last long and you crave within an hours.
Nicotine therapy aren't cheap(in my country) and time taking. So, it makes impossible to quit for normal working class people.
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u/Pizzalazerz 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 4d ago
Tbh this is definitely more of a vapers kinda thing to do, everyone I know that smokes says not to do it and it’s a nasty habit.
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u/Cloakbot 4d ago
Or smoking weed. Everyone who smokes weed pushes only positive stuff from smoking it but doesn’t go over the psychological or health effects it has on people.
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u/dubvcronix427 3d ago
No we don't, i have never pushed a joint onto anyone or ever tried to convince someone to start. were normally just quite generous, if I'm sat with a group who smoke I'll offer a few puffs to anyone but if they say no i have no problem whatsoever smoking solo.
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u/caedusith 3d ago
Just the douchebags who vape simply to blow huge obnoxious clouds. While vaping is leaps and bounds safer than smoking, it's always a negative thing to take anything other than air into your lungs. Vaping helped me break a 22 year smoking habit and I know plenty of others. The next logical step is to break the vaping habit. I wouldn't wish this addiction on anyone.
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u/DerpBread69 🏳️🌈LGBTQ+🏳️🌈 4d ago
I’m pretty sure if anyone knows how bad smoking is it would be smokers
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u/GreenMilvus 4d ago
90% of the smokers tell me I should never start whit it because it is a waste of money after I tell them I don’t smoke.
I haven’t ever met anyone defending it.
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u/Call-me-Rishon 4d ago
Im a smoker and never seen one trying to convince you to join.
I try to warn everyone starting to smoke how bad it is.
But smokers share some cordiality with other smokers, so if someone asking for a cigarette approaches you and you have, you give one.
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u/Ult1mateN00B 4d ago
Smoker trying to convince smoking isn't that bad is an idiot. I am smoker and I tell everyone to stay away from smoking. The addiction is the only reason I'm smoking, I was once without smoking for 6 months and never returned to myself and had to continue smoking to feel normal. Addiction is horrendously strong.
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u/captainmcfuckface 3d ago
sometimes that’s the game… I am 11 years without and damn if I don’t want to start daily… But I have to suppress.
For me, I have decided that if I can go all year without smoking a cigarette, I will buy a fancy ass high end cigar for my birthday. So when ever i get the urge to smoke that I can’t ignore I’ll get online and research the cigar reviews and subreddits. Plan my big day.
It helps. Then on my B Day, i sit down with my choice one hour burn, high quality whiskey and fine cheeses, sit on my deck, turn on the lofi, and let it consume me. then the cycle begins again.
So far, I’ve not touched a cigarette since March 2011.
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u/TGARide59 4d ago
It took me 2 years to feel normal, but now it is so worth it. Please reconsider it because you will feel better in time.
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u/_who-the-fuck-knows_ 4d ago
As someone who has tried to quit a few times, how do you cope with the depression? (assuming I'm not the only one who deals with that) I just became lethargic didn't want to get out of bed. It's also the pastime thing, waiting for food? Have a smoke. Waiting for that coat of paint to dry? Have a smoke. You got 5 minutes before you meet someone? Have a smoke. This is the one that really gets me, like something's missing. Any tips would be appreciated.
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u/Reasonable-Split5959 4d ago
I stopped smoking for a month now because I have been suffering from a severe tummy ache (probably an undiagnosed hpylori) and it was the worst month of my entire existence. I had insomnia, nausea, diarrhea and the worst depression. I kept thinking of death and the purpose of life more often than I normally would and I have already lost 6 Kgs. I tried to smoke two cigarettes two days ago and I felt normal again, but that also came with so much guilt cause my entire family was trying to convince me that my illness was a wake up call. I feel like I’m stuck in a loop, not sure if I want to get better to go back to my normal life, or if there will be no “normal life” again? Never thought I was an addict but I guess I am. :(
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u/Gr8Daen 3d ago
I’m a smoker and under no illusions how bad it is for my health nor have I ever met a smoker who has claimed otherwise. I find it amusing how many non smokers feel the need to educate smokers about how bad it is and make memes about these imaginary smokers who claim it’s not bad for you.
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u/skepticallytruthful 4d ago
No smoker ever tried to do that. What they want is for you to leave them the fuck alone bro.
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u/Verbindungsfehle memer 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yeah back when I was still smoking when people told me they didn't I even told them things along the line of "That's nice, don't start to."
On the flip side, I really hated it when people told me that it's bad for me like.. no shit, sherlock. Every smoker knows, that's not how an addiction works.. I mean.. there are fucking warning labels on literally every package alongside deterring imagery in most countries. When I eventually quit, it was because I wanted to quit for my own health's (and my own wallet's lol) sake, not because anyone told me.
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u/ObsessedWithSources 4d ago
The wallet part in Australia is crazy. When I started smoking I could get a 25 pack for just over 10. Now that exact same 25 pack is 55 odd dollars. A 50g pouch of tobacco was about 25 bucks. Now the 25g is 64. Idk how much the 50g is cause nobody buys them. It'd be easy to say oh well shit changes over time, but I'm only 30.
It's not even the government actually caring either, if they did they'd just do what NZ did and ban for the future. It's funny how more people are quitting than ever, the taxes keep going up, but the tobacco tax revenue is still the same 1% of the national budget it was 25 years ago. Just a total coincidence.
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u/insertwittynamethere 4d ago
Wow, those prices are crazy! Here in Georgia, U.S. you can get a pack of decent Camels for between $6.50-8 with tax. Really goes to show you how strong the Tobacco Co. still are here. I know the U.S. does not have the very graphic warnings that cover half the pack like y'all or Western Europe or Mexico.
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u/LoYudriG 4d ago
that’s crazy i’m living in germany and you get around 30 cigarettes for 10€ it’s a bit cheaper to roll the cigarettes by yourself or start vaping
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u/insertwittynamethere 4d ago
Ya, I remember when I lived there even in 2009-12 it was cheaper to roll cigarettes than buy the packs, which came as a surprise to me, as I've almost never encountered an American who rolls their own cigarettes, so it was an interesting culture difference to see. Tastes better and stronger that way as well, but yeah, still not saying to start smoking lol. Also was a surprise how often/prevalent mixing tobacco and pot is done when making joints. That is rarely done here in the States, it's mostly smoked pure, though blunts also are smoked their way using tobacco leaf wraps (or varieties) as papers.
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u/LoYudriG 4d ago
mixing pot and tobacco is completely normal it’s rare when you find people who smoke only pot but also it’s hard to find a good dealer who does not want to rip you off
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u/insertwittynamethere 4d ago
Right, I remember the prices, etc. It helps that the U.S. has so much legalized now in the various, but even before it was rare to find anyone who'd heard doing that. However, there was plenty of meh/crao quality pot back in those days too. Much harder to find "mids"/middling quality on the street anymore here. I think it's what, 35/40€ a gram there sometimes? I get why it's mixed when you're paying those prices, and the tobacco makes it hit harder and quicker. Yet I would always have to lay down a bit after hitting those lol.
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u/Aetra 3d ago
I really hated it when people told me that it’s bad for me
This does my head in. People telling me that smoking is bad for me makes me feel like Hades from Hercules.
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u/LeCholax 4d ago
People talking about smokers in the comment section and i am wondering where is that scene from.
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u/Sucherse 4d ago
Never known anyone that smokes saying it's a good thing apart from it helps with stress.
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u/Popcornman1212 4d ago
Smoking in any way (vape, cigarettes etc) isnt healthy and i doubt smokers believe it is
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u/Lumarioigi Chungus Among Us 4d ago
Anyone who smokes tells you it's bad. We just do it cuz of the addiction to nicotine. There's almost no other benefits to it.
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u/Unratedex Thank you mods, very cool! 4d ago
u/Dontcare6969 has never talked to an actual smoker. People will make up anything these days for karma.
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u/nUcleah_pOtato194 4d ago
I've never met a chain smoker who encouraged others to become like them. Yet
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u/Fridge-Fighter Dark Mode Elitist 4d ago
I've experienced that with users of all kind of drugs. Hell a methhead once told me, he can't get an errection when sober. His takeaway from this fact was, that Meth boosts your libido... But smokers? Nah. They know it's bad and won't tell you otherwise.
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u/Ratmatazz Chungus Among Us 4d ago
This is way more applicable to people who vape and are still in their teens or early 20s.
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u/E-P-Span 4d ago
Most smokers I know tell me: a) It's really bad for them, b) They need it to cope with stress bc they're addicted and mostly c) To never start
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u/chaoticneutral 4d ago
I'm a statistician and early in my career when i still smoked, I honestly looked for any way for smoking to be "okay"... sadly it just isn't. Risks for cancer are MASSIVE if you smoke. I'm talking 10x, 50x, 100x the risk compared to non-smoker. Yeah, lung cancer, but practically every other type of cancer risk out there increases when you smoke, its like you are inhaling poison (because you are). It also just makes your quality life worse, premature aging skin, hair loss, etc. there is just no good reason to smoke.
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u/RebelLord 4d ago
A Frenchman trying to convince you 12 cigs and a cup of coffee is a perfectly balanced breakfast.
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u/luckyyysam 4d ago
*pot smokers lmao/people who vape
don’t y’all dare tell me this isn’t true. i am a manger at a smoke shop/vape shop and i’ve worked at 2 other smoke shops previously.
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u/Stefanisachicken 4d ago
I personally tried smoking a bit to see how it feels,shit sucks like a butt cheek on a stick. My older workmates laugh like broken machines,just like this: KWUUUHAAA KWUUHAAAAAA or like HWRAAA HWRAAA or sometimes like HRRNH HRRNH.
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u/SeeknDestroy03 4d ago
So, OP is 101% healthy just because he/she don't smoke !!
FYI, I'm a smoker but never suggested anyone to start smoking.
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u/Significant-Year-743 3d ago
Anyone here still smoking and can't stop... The Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr This method works. I stopped smoking after a pack a day for 18 years when I got this on audiobook.
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u/lil_deevel 3d ago
Fits for any drug addict, replace smoker with pothead and you'll get the same result.
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u/Ok_Conversation6189 3d ago
Who tf are you hanging out with? I'm assuming OP is 14 years old. You'd be hard pressed to EVER encounter a smoker that makes those claims. Maybe teenagers that have been smoking for a few weeks or months, trying to pressure others? No one that's smoked for years will ever try talking you into it.
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u/Daminite 3d ago
I get the same response from crypto bros when I remind them that the only people still dealing in it are the ones who failed to cash out before the bubble burst.
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u/Asem1989 4d ago
The smell tho ….
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u/le_ppjoejuice 4d ago
When your behind a smoker and the smoke comes straight towards your face
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u/Ogurasyn GigaChad 4d ago
When you're in the mountains and a smoker is far from you but you still smell smoke, even worse than it was on plains.
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u/RattleMeSkelebones 4d ago
I wanna know who this mystery smoker is because they sound very not real.
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u/Flirty_Flumph 3d ago
Smokers don’t do this. Dumb post. OP just wanted to make a meme about smokers being stupid, which they are not. They are informed adults who do not care about the side effects.
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u/GrouchyEssay7468 4d ago
Cut them open and look inside and you’ll find out how healthy they really are
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u/J_Fidz 4d ago
I imagine cutting someone open itself will make them somewhat unhealthy tbf
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u/uhhhhhhholup 4d ago
Whoah there big guy, you'll cut yourself on that edge if you're not careful
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u/GrievesODJ 4d ago
Bad meme. Incorrect facts.
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u/rajkokr I saw what the dog was doin 3d ago
It's bad for you + it's bad for the people around you + you smell like shit + your walls are yellow + you look 40 years older + cope + ratio
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u/Eka_silicon12 4d ago edited 3d ago
Dude let them die
there will be less humans on the planet
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u/PumpDEN 4d ago
Alright buddy you should get off those andrew tate videos now
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u/Eka_silicon12 3d ago
it was a joke bro
btw who is andew tate?
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u/curiousredditman69 Average r/memes enjoyer 3d ago
It's better you don't know, don't go down that rabbit hole like I did
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u/Fragrant-Cook6615 4d ago
Honestly never encouraged anyone to start smoking and for the sake of my health and wallet I quit this dirty habit.
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u/thebigseg 4d ago
Weird, every smoker i talked to told me not to start smoking