• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Why do smokers of all kinds have to smoke right in front of the door of every fucking building?

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      4 months ago

      I remember when they did it INSIDE buildings. And cars. Schools, hospitals… if you lived through the 80’s you just have the pervasive smell of tobacco registered as a prime core memory.

      • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I use to live in Vegas as a child occasionally. We’d sometimes go to the casinos for shows and have to cross The Floor

        I can still feel it on my skin decades and decades later

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      4 months ago

      Because they’re selfish inconsiderate pricks who can’t fathom how disgusting they truly are.

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      4 months ago

      At my apartment buulding they stand right in front of the no smoking sign at the front step to the building on the building’s property where smoking is not allowed. If they stabd 5 ft over, they’re on the sidewalk where it’s okay.

      But nope, they have to stand right there.

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      4 months ago

      Probably because they’re addicted, enjoy the high, and don’t have the means or strength of character to quit.

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        4 months ago

        Or they have undiagnosed ADHD and haven’t associated the effect of nicotine with their seminormality mask they can only maintain with legal stimulants.

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      4 months ago

      Because that tiny overhang is the only goddamn shade/rain shelter in this entire city block. People love designating “that spot over there” as the smoking spot but hate putting any sort of shelter from the elements.

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        4 months ago

        So? Whoever brought the cigarettes should bring a jacket or umbrella too.

        That spot “over there” is so the smelly smoke can also stay “over there” and not end up in the lungs of healthy people.

    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      Noooooo you can’t use smoking you must doomscroll social media and consoom products!!! You can’t be getting dopamine from chemicals you MUST CONSOOOM PRODUCT!!!

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        4 months ago

        Bro, Imma be honest, as a nicotine addict, I wouldnt encourage anyone get on it. You start seeing nicotine as a stimulant that you “need” to get through difficult tasks, or tasks that need focus, or shit, maybe you even need to game a bit better because you’re sleep deprived(caused by the nicotine) and having an extra stimulant alongside some caffeine might help. You start using it to get through stuff, and then because of withdrawals, that “”“”“justifies”“”“” your use of it to get through stuff even more. Not to mention nicotine’s bad effects on your gum health and cardiovascular health.

        By the way, for anyone reading this, fuck vaping. Harder to quit than smoking because a lot of people get nicotine salt disposables, or their mental process when in withdrawal/craving phase is “oh it’s just vapor, not smoke which is carcinogenic, one more hit couldn’t hurt”. Which is true, smoke, tar, combustion, etc is the main cancer causing part of nicotine, but thinking of it like that doesn’t help you quit.

        Don’t smoke, don’t vape. Longest I’ve lasted is a month so far, and that’s because I threw my little nic salt pen and carts away.

        Edit Addendum: Btw, this is typed by a mofo who is still vaping, I relapsed. I fell into that same line of logic above. “I need it to get through work” type shit

        • Sidhean@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          I bring words of encouragement: Fuck yeah. Any hit you don’t take is a win, so keep at it!

          I struggle with alcohol and I’m not gonna drink today again. Maybe skip a hit for a stranger on the internet, and the world’ll keep a couple lights a little longer.

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    4 months ago

    I once insinuated that I hated the smell of vapes and people downvoted me, saying “noooo but blueberry muffin flavour actually smells so goooood”

    Yeah okay buddy, I think you’re one of the ones I’d find wandering the streets vaping in front of everyone

    Edit: to the people currently downvoting me, you guys do know vaping can also give you cancer and increases your risk of respiratory disease, right? And by vaping in front of other people you’re forcing that risk on to them, right? Grow a little empathy

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      4 months ago

      This is true, but it’s so much better than walking through cig smoke, or smelling that shit in someone’s car, or the nightmare of walking into someone’s house that has tar all over the walls and furniture because they smoke in the house.

      I’ll take mass replacement of cigs with vape any day.

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      4 months ago

      There are people that are addicted to a drug the government will not regulate because they are taxing the shit out of the addicted. Grow a little empathy.

      Especially for the vapers because they allready diminish the harm to them and others. The exoust fumes of the car beside you are many more times dangerous than the passive vape you could inhale.

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        I’m specifically calling out people who downvoted me for saying I don’t like the smell of vapes

        I’m honestly with you, I think cigarette and vape sales should be criminalised, smokers are being taken advantage of both by the government and the smoko sellers

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      4 months ago

      I was with you until you tried to lecture people on what’s bad for them or not. Yes people know. Lots of things are bad for you, they are adults.

      Did you know science has proven that being on social media is bad for you?

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    4 months ago

    If they banned drinking coffee indoors, you’d see people greedily and overzealously tapping the bottom of the cup for the last drop of precious magic fluid to touch their quivering tongue before entering a building.

    Incidentally I’ll take the smell of a fruit vape cloud over coffee sphincter breath all day long.

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      Well one smell is one you don’t like, the other actually damages your (and everyone around you) health.

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        Everyone is acting like they’re blowing it directly in your face… Walk down a city street and you just inhaled a ton of shit, but no one says anything lol. Hell, opening a window in an office in some towns with their are quality would be more damaging. But the vape, that’s the problem.

        Also the point stands, tons of people are addicted to coffee and act generally the same. I don’t know why people just love acting each other over everything.