Anon discovers cigarettes (Edit: Anon discovers addiction)

When I get super terrible, a single tablet (2mg) can make me feel better. Doesn't even make me feel like I need another. Fine for weeks
They called it a peace pipe for a reason. We're the ones that went and capitalized on it and made it horrible and deadly addictive.

Smoking a cigarette feels like you’ve been standing your entire life and you just sat down. Then it feels like nothing and the world hurts when you don’t have it
- I haven't smoked in 15 years, and I could start again tomorrow. I love smoking and still miss it.
  
  Thats a good streak, dude. Keep going :)
  
  I quit smoking cold turkey almost 10 years ago. I promised myself I can start smoking again when The Fall happens.
  
  4 years free myself!
  
  Well done, I know that feeling even though I'm only on my 2nd year without cigarettes after smoking for 30 years.
- This is actually a very good description of how a shot of heroin feels, when you have a habit. It's just much moreso than cigarettes.
  
  Awww man I was really looking forward to heroin in my later years.
- Five, hundred, cigarettes.

Besides the chemical addiction part, it's also a genuinely social one as well.
Smoking areas are designated places where strangers talk to each other. Asking for a light or offering one is a super simple way to break the ice. My dad quit cold turkey several times but he always fell back into the habit hanging with his friends
- Smoking is also an activity that some workplaces allow you to use to justify extra breaks.
  For example, it's easier for one of my coworkers to go outside and have a smoke break without judgement than it is for me to go sit in the break room for 5-10 minutes and eat a snack if I'm tired.
  
  My grandfather picked up smoking in WWII because non-smoke4s didn't get any breaks from digging trenches.
  It took over 50 years, but WWII still managed to kill him.
  
  Also, nicotine serves as a pretty fair appetite suppressant and stimulant, thus why some of us fell into the habit in early college. Easier to justify the cost of a meal a day and a smoke than it is for the supplies to make three squares a day, at least in a food desert.
  
  I've worked at a cleaning job where the smokers were allowed to go outside whenever. Some even went on a smoke break several times per hour. The nonsmokers like me on the other hand were reprimanded if we sat down and drank something outside of the scheduled break. I complained, but the boss was a smoker and just told me they need their smoke break but I don't need coffee.... One coworker whom I talked to about that even said they started smoking because of this and because the non-smokers were expected to work more and cover for the smokers on their cigarette breaks.
  
  I had a job where breaks were working breaks unless you were a smoker. That's when I went from only smoking socially to being a regular smoker.
- Yeah, my coworkers take smoke breaks together and I genuinely think I missing some important socialization because I don't smoke
  
  When I smoked, we had people that would just come and hang out for the break and the conversation. Go for it, it's fine. Just don't complain about smoking or you won't be welcome, predictably enough.
  
  Take a cup of coffee or tea and go with them. There are multiple modern addictions that you can choose from.
  
  I never understood this argument.
  Colleague goes for a smoke break? I go with them, just don't smoke.

Because nothing matters. Never gonna retire. Never gonna own a home. Couldnt afford kids even if i wanted them. Why worry about "being productive" into my fuckin 80s?

As someone who has done a lot of drugs, nicotine having "no high" is just bs. Yeah it's mild, but take a few drags very quickly and find out.
- I don't think nicotine is a bad drug, necessarily.
  But smoking is a terrible way to take it. Lip pouches also have their detractions, with the wounds they create.
  Perhaps the teas, or other drinks, or sprays are better. Or maybe salves, if nicotine patches do anything then a salve should work too, I'm guessing. I know there's bigger overdose risk, though. So they all will require the same personal responsibility approach as strong alcohol.
  Ultimately I think legal access to strong nicotine products without the cancer issues of smoking is inevitable. But maybe only if we get to somewhere in the early 2100's, because I don't think it's happening soon.
  
  Ah yes my daily nicotine coffee
  
  Nicotine is poisonous when swallowed. A tea is a horrible idea.
- As like for many drugs, this search starts seeking pleasure and ends up, avoiding withdrawal with no high
  
  Can confirm. Ruinied my life. Ironically it was alcohol that destroyed me.
- Smoked 2 cigs way back when.
  Only coughed with no benefits.
  
  Was it Clinton that didn't inhale?

You already said it kills you faster then if you didn't smoke.

Because it's a drug that makes you feel good?
Also: I am now convinced that a sizable portion of the Population is neurodivergent in a way that Nicotine does A LOT more for them than "a slight calming effect".
- Because it’s a drug that makes you feel good?
  More specifically, its a stimulant that makes your brain more active and helps you cut through your exhaustion. Like caffeine, its a "work drug" designed to crank more units of labor out of you in a limited time span, at the expense of your overall health and well-being.
  That's why capitalist countries have been so loathe to outlaw it, when compared to the creative/transgressive stimulants like LSD and THC.
- TL;DR: Show me someone with any hard-to-quit habit, and I'll show you someone that's self-medicating for something.
  This is tragically under-appreciated in our society. Especially when it seems everyone is converging on some kind of self-diagnosis, and collectively coming to a "hey nobody's normal" conclusion. We're so very close to framing help as "harm reduction for nicotine" and "maybe it's also neurodiversity and/or trauma", but we keep missing the mark and argue about vapes instead.
  Also, as the greentext suggests, I personally think we're way past the point where people that can avoid starting or can quit easy, have already done so. What you see these days is a rather hard-core use cohort that has complex addiction to work through.
  So.. yeah. Helping a friend quit? Please work with them to consider the jenga-tower of adverse psychology that a-pack-a-day might be holding up. It could be way harder to pull off than either of you think.
  
  90% of schizophrenic people smoke. It helps their illness. I don't know if the mechanism has been discovered.
- Apparently there are some people that live under the illusion that nicotine doesn't actually do anything, I saw one of these guys in another thread. I'm sure whoever placed them under that illusion did it with good intentions, but the implication that there are people getting hooked on it every day just to look cool is so funny
  
  People say the same about caffeine. All it means is you have a high tolerance to something. Doesnt mean addiction but it could be part of it.
- Nicotine makes my whole body vibrate and I would describe it as feeling quite high for about 2 minutes
  
  That goes away when you become a regular smoker.
  
  Interesting. It makes me feel like I suddenly became super heavy, like the Earth's gravity just dialed up a notch. Oddly, if I were already high on cannabis, a toke of nicotine would take away some of the weed buzz. I know I wouldn't be "more sober" with both, but it feels like it (which makes me then think that I wasted that weed by doing both.)
  I wanna hear everyone's experiences. I've always been curious what drugs (including nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol) feel like to other people.
  
  I kinda miss this feeling, I vape 50 mg (or is it really?) salt and I hardly feel anything
- I read that the MAOIs in Tobacco can enhance the effects of nicotine.
  Thus, if you really want the fix, the effects will be much stronger.
- ADHD and cigarettes pair so nicely. 3 mins of turning off the world every hour is why I'm not sure I'll ever be able to quit. Being a single unit item is why things like vaping never worked for me either. I had a small amount of luck with cans of fizzy drinks, but I'd need an insane amount and 2 weeks off work with none of my usual triggers for a chance.

My question exactly.. I genuinely don't get it
- Like many things, it's an irrational decision to start at some point, and then addiction keeps you doing it. I have tried out a few drugs in my teenage/young adult years, including some "hard" ones, which ended up genuinely being one-off curiosity things for me. But the one that I simply wasn't able to kick until last year was nicotine. It really is scarily addictive for something so widespread and legal. (Alcohol was also hard, but easier for me).
  That, and the part about "no high" is just not really true, even after you develop a dependency/addiction (with rapidly diminishing returns, of course). But especially when first starting to vape/smoke, there are very much effects beyond placebo. It hooks into a lot of your neurochemistry, and like most things that do, you feel that. To the point that, e.g., many people that consume weed with tobacco, will think the initial wooziness they feel is already due to the weed, when really, it is a tobacco hit. The weed effects generally come afterwards.
  Of course, the effect is not at all as intense as alcohol or other drugs, but there are effects. There are also, to my knowledge, some indications, that a lot of people with ADHD use it to self-medicate, since it seems to affect them differently, like other drugs do, too.
  
  Of course, the effect is not at all as intense as alcohol or other drugs, but there are effects. There are also, to my knowledge, some indications, that a lot of people with ADHD use it to self-medicate, since it seems to affect them differently, like other drugs do, too.
  Sounds plausible; nicotine is a stimulant by means of triggering the release of adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin. That is pretty much what an ADHD brain lacks.
  
  I've done coke, meth, acid, ecstasy, heavy amounts of opiates and I had been a full on alcoholic for years and I stopped all of those, quite easily as well. Cigarettes are another story tho.
  One time I tried quitting cigarettes cold turkey and had a mild heart attack.
  I've gotten close before but I just end up back here smoking.
  Nicotine is by far the most addictive drug I've ever taken.
  
  If you get drunk and throw a dip in your head goes spinning like crazy lol
- Nicotine is a stimulant.
- A drunk cigarette is quite nice ngl, usually makes the hangover worse though
- the reason is in the post. it's highly addictive. quitting is basically impossible without professional assistance
- Nicotine does have a high, that’s why. It’s subtle and a bit similar to caffeine

Smoking not only kills you, but those around you too.
I still don't understand why they don't outright ban cigarettes entirely.

A friend of mine started smoking because it was the only way to take regular breaks from his construction job.
- I just went out with the smokers when they were taking smoke breaks. I only ever got shit about it from two bosses and everyone else backed me up so they dropped the issue.
  
  I'm pretty sure that legally they can't discriminate against you and deny you extra breaks just for not smoking, because otherwise there they are saying that smokers need (as in absolutely require) more breaks than non-smokers, and therefore saying that smokers are protected class, which obviously they're not and gets into a whole quagmire.
  I would love someone to try and litigate this.
- This is what I miss when I switched to an ecig. Even if you get given the same breaks as a smoker, what are you going to do, sit inside? Then people will still bug you.
  But as a smoker you get to go outside, the smoke smells horrible to non-smokers so the number of people who can bug you is reduced (Moreso now since less people are smoking), and that break can truely be a 'turn off brain from work' sort of break.
  
  Take the ecig outside?
  
  Were you smoking your e-cigarette inside? What a dick move.
  Please absolutely do feel free to go outside, I no more want to smell like blueberry raspberry then I want to smell like smoke.

Some of y'all have never been addicted to anything and it shows.
- Yeah you say that like it's a character flaw.
  "You're worthless suckers have no vices"
  
  I'm saying that the person in the green text is judging people for going through something they have literally no experience with.
  Obviously addiction is bad, but that doesn't mean the people who become addicted are stupid or make bad decisions. The way addiction works means there is no choice. If it was as simple as making a choice addiction wouldn't exists.
  
  “You’re worthless suckers have no vices”
  Vices are social taboos, not iron laws. And if you haven't ever transgressed, I gotta wonder what kind of life you're living (particularly in a society that's puritanical in its ethics)
  
  IMO if you go your whole life not trying drugs you're robbing yourself of important experiences.
  Everyone should known what addiction feels like, even if it's just the slight nagging of a cigarette.
  Everyone should do a psychedelic at least once, most people who have had a positive trip rank it as one of the three most important experiences of their life along with things like the birth of their child.
  We owe it to ourselves to experience as much of the human experience as we can tolerate, because the future versions of ourselves will thank us for it.
- No one is questioning why addicted people keep smoking. We're questioning why non-addicted people start smoking.

I can speak as someone who previously smoked for a decade+ and then quit. I started because some friends who smoked offered me one and I was dumb enough to say yes. Horrible. But there was a very nice immediate head rush/high. And then that led to friends continuing to offer cigarettes and me continuing to be dumb. And then addiction takes hold and it goes from there.
I probably didn't actually BUY my own smokes until I'd already smoked more than a carton off of other people offering.
And it is a HARD drug to quit. Still to this day when I smell someone smoking a cig I immediately get the "awww fuck I could really use one of those right now" urges
- As a non-smoker, I get that sensation when I smell a cigar or cigarillo - a sweet scent of tobacco.
  But cigarettes? What's even to smell? It just smells like an ash toilet
  
  It just smells like an ash toilet
  IMO that's part of why so many people (me included) fall for this shit: "there's no way I'll become addicted to this horrendous shit, no harm in bumming another one to look cool".
  
  But if a million flies love to suck on shit, it has to be good, right?
  
  After you smoke cigarettes for a while the smell becomes good to you
- Elementary school always warned us that people would offer us free drugs. This whole time, people have joked that no one is going around giving away free cocaine and heroin. Turns out, it was cigarettes they were trying to warn us about
  
  This but unironically lol
- Yeah from what I've heard that feeling never goes away. I remember someone who quit smoking telling me how good secondhand smoke smells.
- I smoked occasionally while drinking at bars/parties. Bought a few packs to smoke/share. Never smoked outside of those times and at worst it was maybe every other week.
  I guess I had a decent addiction tolerance.

There’s something pleasurable about exhaling mist out of your mouth.
plus potential undiagnosed adhd self med maybe? I always could solve any problem if I only had a smoke to think. It’s like some kind of unlocking full potential
It’s been 10 years since my last and I still miss that full potential feeling. I feel like I live with a constant fog on my mind without it
It’s very hard to part ways with the clarity that nicotine gives me. As if teleported to some dimension where everything is easy suddenly and very clear. Time slows down
Fuck maybe it’s worth going back just for that clarity. I never really recovered since quitting
I thought I could overcome it with sheer force of will and my brain will somehow get used to it and work fine without nicotine but that never happened
I miss that kind of focus
- It's not worth going back! I'm trying to quit, my advice to you don't think about the high. Think about how expensive it is, how gross it smells, how much time it takes from your day, how much easier it is to breathe. The high is fleeting, the damage to your body is permanent.
  
  Yeah I know I know. I even can’t do it like medically I am not supposed to more than usual person.
  I need some kind of substance that works like nicotine, is easy to obtain and has less or no health risks
  Probably gotta go to psych at last but I procrastinate on that since years
  I was thinking recently let’s go and enroll in a course to become air traffic controller but I need nicotine for that. To pass tests and to work
  Thing is I can’t even take the nicotine pills technically because I am in thrombosis risk group.
  If I was usual medically person I would just take nicotine pills and deem the eventual risks completely worth having actual ability to focus and work. Without nicotine my career life is depressing if it even exists
  I underestimated how this vile habit helped me pass to the top university but to be honest when I was studying I smoked like a lot, more than I ate and started to feel so fucking terrible that I switched education to something easier that I already knew how to do
- Just use patches man

I was in the military, and smokers got breaks.
It does have a felt effect, but is very mild. The thing is that the body loves nicotine, and even if you’re not consciously getting high, your body is getting high. That’s why vapes were able to become popular.
The body loves it so much, the smoke stops smelling bad to you.
And finally, the fact that it smells bad & keeps people away is a GOOD thing.
- smokers got breaks.
  When I quit smoking, I pretty much stopped going to parties, conventions, dance clubs, and concerts. Having an excuse to get out of the crowd and noise and decompress for ten minutes every couple of hours made "going out" so much more tolerable for me.
  
  Easy. Say you're going for a smoke and then don't actually smoke.
  
  Don't forget the nicotine fix.
- I (also military) used to grab a cup of coffee and bring it out whenever the smokers went out (though I had to start doing half a cup, because the smokers took a lot of breaks).
  Then one chief established there would be no more "smoke breaks" for the smokers, but everyone would get regular breaks (and the smokers could take theirs outside). People (including the smokers who had been taking breaks all along) started making jokes about taking their "union mandated" breaks. And the smokers just went out twice as often.
- I'd rather smell like smoke than body odor after being in the field for a week or two with no showers.
  
  I never did any of that stuff, but after what they have to do, I can think of few things, that you could do as soon as you got back, that would be better than a cigarette.

It certainly does have an effect, albeit much less than hard drugs. I've smoked twice. The second time I decided to try a cigarette with a beer to see why people liked it so much. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to never try smoking again.
- Basically why I am extremely hesitant to try most drugs. Either I don't like it, or I DO like and and want to keep trying it... either way the odds of it being a good thing for me long term are pretty sketchy.
  
  Chemically addictive drugs aren't worth it. Ones that aren't physically addictive can just be pleasant and then you don't feel any particular compulsion to do them beyond the desire to do pleasant things.
  Not saying to go out and do some drugs or anything, just sharing that plenty of people have done things like hallucinogens, found it to be a fun and worthwhile experience and then never felt the need to do it again.
  
  Agreed. Just not worth it.
  I'm fortunate in that I've tried several things and never really got hooked, but if there was one that could eventually hook me it would be nicotine or opioids.
- I believe the head rush effect is mostly when you first start and after that it diminishes and then you're just dealing with the withdrawal.
  
  This is correct. Though if you go a day or two without smoking you get the head rush back again for only that first smoke which is the insidious part about it
  
  It's like a lot of other drugs. You never get that initial high back, but you keep chasing it.
- So this is funny. I was raised with smokers. Didn't smoke myself. Why? Because I got nothing but cough. Second hand smoke got me used to nicotine and it didn't work xD
  But! After smokers died off, and I lived alone for some time, I got used to no smoke and it backed off. Friend tried again to get me to smoke. So I inhaled like I did earlier and huh. I got hit, quickly.
  So I swore to never smoke anyway. I already knew the high won't last long before organism gets used to it, but I am gonna have cravings by then, so meh. And seen two close people ruined by it too.
- Cigarettes and coffee, man. The diner I used to go to (20+ years ago) had a single "non-smoking" table in the middle of the restaurant, the tar turned the walls yellowish (it was a 24 hour diner and closed once a year for a few days to deep clean the place), and there was always a haze. I didn't smoke personally, but I spent a lot of time there.
  When the smoking ban hit, it hit that place hard. A few weeks after it went into effect, I went there and thought they had changed the coffee they used because it wasn't nearly as good. I asked the waitress, and she said it was the same, you just didn't have all the cigarette smoke to go with it anymore. Turns out they used the exact same coffee as every other diner in town, they just had a constant nicotine-laced aromatics to go with it.

Need to shit? Smoke a cigarette quickly and you will soon be shitting. Need to relax? Long slow drags of a cig will relax you? Need to perk up lots of short quick puffs will raise ypur energy levels (note do not do this if holding back a shit)
- Experiencing the constipation, stress, and fatigue commonly associated with a nicotine withdrawal? Try nicotine!
- Add coffee for an even more enjoyable shit
- Dang, I should try these things out.
  (joking)

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

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.
- That first set of parenthesese were really confusing until I read the rest of the sentence.
  
  "(breast, 69)" out of context does seem a bit 👀
- Well, back in the day cigarette companies paid to be in the movies. This timeline puts it back to the very first "talkies" cigarette companies were already shouldering their way in and making sure that they were associated with sex and cool. Everyone was smoking on screen because films were big tobacco ads.

Most smokers want to quit or at least they say they do.

Tried in high school. I wanted to be able to smoke even if i didnt have or couldnt smoke weed. Thankfully a couple days in cigarettes made me vomit and I stopped without looking back. Wish I had been able to do that the first time alcohol made me vomit.

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
  
  Still messes up your lungs though

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.
  
  non drinker
  every week
  Pick one.
- All I get is a scratchy throat, a bad cough and an awful taste in my mouth. I get addiction, I don't get how people start smoking. Why do they power through this? Just to belong? Be one of the cool kids?

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.

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.
- Yep. Cigarettes smell and taste terrible, but I love the smell of pipe tobacco and cigars. I enjoy smoking a cigar a few times a year. Though, the smoke only smells good in the moment. Once it permeates clothing, it reeks just as bad as cigarette smoke the next day.
  
  For some reason clothes soak up the nasty smells the most, but to my nose the room ends up smelling quite nice for a few days. Talking about cigars
- They intentionally add more poisonous shit to them.
  What and why
  
  tar, formaldehyde, and benzene are all added to cigarettes. Tar is a binder, the formaldehyde is a preservative, and benzene is an accelerant. The problem is that all of these things are toxic and/or cancerous.
  Smoking loose leaf tobacco is the healthiest way to do it if that's what you want to do. The little foam filters in cigarettes do nothing and the additives added to processed tobacco make it much more unhealthy.

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.
- Nicotine is a stimulant, and it increases the levels of serotonin & epinephrine.
  That’s what causing the smoking area vibe: they are all artificially being kept happy.

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).

I got hooked at first because as teenagers when we smoked weed we would smoke it cut with nicotine.
- I don't even smoke cigs anymore, but I still use rolling tobacco to cut my weed for some weird reason.
  
  Spiffs are just so much smoother, and nice tobacco has a good taste to it. We would always spliff our blunts in college.
  
  I got started because I would mix hash into tobacco for joints. Then I just started smoking the cigarettes I was using for joints.

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.
  
  I feel like it’s not hard to understand in a general sense. Could be carelessness, depression, ignorance that it will be easy to quit, peer pressure, culture, etc. People make irrational decisions all the time, no matter how “dumb” or “smart” they are.

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.
- The marketing to get the first puff, then the nicotine to keep you hooked.

Because drugs make you feel good?

If smoking isn't cool anymore then I don't want to live in this world.
- It hasn't been cool for over 30 years.
  
  It was definitely cool in the nineties. Maybe you just weren't?

OP discovers addiction. Doesn't realise he probably has one himself.
- OOP?

I picked up a vape off the street a few days ago to disassemble and see how they work. I definitely get that nicotine craving they are talking about. The slightest whiff of that things odor is enough to make you curious to more. Ive had to put it in a jar to avoid the sweet smell

Because dying from smoking weed isn't available in all places..........

Me ( an addicted smoker ) : THIS!

Quit that shit. Maybe relapsed once or twice and still beat myself over it.
However, I'm probably not quitting weed for the foreseeable future, but I pace myself heavily with that (twice a month max)

Back then:

md

    
> be 12
> see cowboy jack on TV
> see the protagonist always smoking lucky strike
> get a pack of cigs from the older kids
> smoke it as a joke
> get addicted to it
> life-time smoker created
> parents beat the shit out of me
Am I as cool as you, Mr. Cowboy Jack?

Now:

md

    
> be 13 year old edgelord
> idolize cartman in south park
> hate parents for being assholes
> they not taking you seriously because you're a kid
> see package of cigs
> it has "not to be sold under 18" written on it
> come up with idea
> get a pack of cigs from the few older kids who still smoke
> smoke it as a joke
> get addicted to it
> life-time smoker created
> other kids make fun of me by sending the suicide hotline to me 
Am I as cool as you, Eric Cartman? Am I a real adult now, mom and dad? Also fuck you Anita Sarkeesian for wanting to ban video games!

I'm sure they exist but I'm having a hard time believing any significant amount of 13 year olds are idolizing Cartman. When I was young, we all just thought Cartman was funny...but it was more a laughing-at-him funny, no one thought his actions were admirable lol

It's cool

I stopped smoking and had two bacterial infections the first since years. The second one end up in a Pneumonia.
Is smoking healthy?

Smoking is becoming cool again because seeing a 50 year old man vape is pathetic.
- Yeah fuck him for switching to something not nearly as harmful.