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Edit: note, I haven't smoked myself, so this is second hand info

Like seriously

Short term it

calms you

let's you focus

feels good

can be used fairly consistently while leaving you capable to do work

is minimally intensive to use, just requiring cigarettes and a lighter/match/fire of some sort

Compare that to alcohol or drugs and such. The only thing comparable is tea/coffee.

Long term it

gets you seriously addicted

Gives you over a dozen different cancers and other diseases

massacres your lungs

And so on, not to mention what it does to underage smokers.

And I get why it happens medically, and I'm not denying it [obviously]. But it's almost on par with those random creeks filled with brain eating amoebas. Like, if there is a god, why did they decide to design earth like that?

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[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

Hmmm you're buying the hype which is percolating around due to the most straight edge/drug tested man alive cult of crypto guys who get high off the gas station substances. Nicotine makes you incredibly crabby and evil if you use it regularly, because you get cravings in your sleep which makes you fucking tired, and during the day you can basically time when the cigs guy around you will be in super evil mode if he hasn't had a break. It's a devil's contract for restaurant workers because people KNOW you need the breaks or ELSE lmao, but they can use it like a carrot too so it goes both ways. Plus coffee releases the same enzyme that burns thru it so together they're like crack. I like to get some good tobacco and go through all of it in a couple weeks and forget about it for a few years. But Mao is right smoking bad. "Mao smoking gif bad" - Mao