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Tobacco being extremely unhealthy is a cosmic level joke (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by King_Simp@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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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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[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Smoking does not calm you or make you focused. Withdrawal causes distraction and anxiety. Relieving the craving returns you to baseline stress levels.

[–] Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Withdrawal is a factor for constant smokers, but the effect is real, though much lighter than something like weed. I sometimes chain smoke, and I even get some of the same side effects I get with some analgesics.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Its lighter than a good cup of coffee.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Nicotine is expressly a stimulant that increases focus and induces a calm state by flooding the brain with dopamine.

That’s what makes nicotine addicting, no one would want to smoke again after their first time if the sensation wasn’t pleasurable.