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Marlboro is a major producer of cigarettes. Cigarettes, and tobacco products as a whole, are expensive, smelly and are proven to increase cancer risks due to the inhalation of carcinogens as the cigarette is lit and then inhaled. The burning of cigarettes also creates tar that is then inhaled, so there is literally black sludge that slowly accumulates in ones lungs as one inhale the smoke.
Reading all that, you might wonder how one could "love" it. Thing is, Tobacco products are incredibly addictive, once you start smoking cigarettes it is incredibly hard to stop. People start by only doing it with friends once a month or so, many people say it has a relaxing effect, especially when taken in a social circle, but then their brain craves it twice a month, and suddenly they want to do it every day or more often. It's as we grown ups say, "a slut that takes all your money but wont love you back".
Cigarettes also make hrt less effective.
This is then revealed to be a breaking point for the portrayed smoker, evidently a hormone replacement therapy user. See, hrt is helping a lot of people growing into a body they feel comfortable in. It's like puberty, but a more controlled process some people really want to do to feel comfortable in their body. This meme is showing that this desire is so great they even give up something that is incredibly hard to quit, because this step in their life is so important to them. The same way some people love to stay fit to feel good about their bodies, hrt users expend real effort to get to a body they don't hate when necessary.
Who "loves" a drug-addiction? I only ever heard extremely dumb people say "but I love smoking" followed by some incredibly cognitively dissonant "because"s.
You reek miles against the wind like a dirty old ashtray, age rapidly and die of it. What's there to love?
I did smoke BTW, so I don't talk about stuff I have no clue about.
But then how else LeninKitty1312 will incorporate 2nd ware feminism-style performative "anti-male world order" action into her style of transgender lesbianism? Men hate women smoking, while all men smoke at least half a pack a day. /j just in case
What are you talking about?
Is this specific to smoking, or is it nicotine in general?
Iirc nicotine binds to the same receptors as oral estrogen. So I guess it's just nicotine and possibly only if you're doing pills? But I've never smoked so I've never delved too deep into it so I recommend you do a more thorough investigation.
So what you're saying is the old commercials saying and displaying smoking makes you more manly were ignorantly accurate?
Still not worth cancer tho.
You are a loser if you smoke cigarettes

Technically correct, but is it right to say it?
Same situation applies in other situations, and it isn't limited to addiction.
And eat sugar and drive car
I genuinely can't tell if this is a ragebait or you genuinely think that.
I could agree with "people who make smoking their lifestyles and portray it as a cool thing to do", but almost no smoker wants to be a smoker
Doesn't failure to quit literally make you a loser?
The power of one's addiction mostly comes from genetics, not your vibes. While many can't really get addicted to weed, others will evolve around it. By your logic, every mentally weaker person is a loser
This. Is. SPARTA.
We drop our disabled and mentally ill down into the bottomless pit. Completely useless losers.
I’m going to start smoking again just to spite you.
I'm about as anti-smoking as it gets, and whaaaaat the hell is this.
People shouldn't smoke because smokers' lives have worth that they shouldn't let be destroyed at the hands of the tobacco industry, not because it makes them "losers". What the actual fuck is this shit.
If they are losing their lives by smoking, aren't they losers by definition? ;P
Maybe they think shaming will be effective
The only thing I could think of when I read their comment is that they're calling cigarette smokers "losers" while spending their time calling cigarette users "losers" in a meme community on a backwater social media site.
I laughed; if I smoked, I'd have laughed harder.
That's clearly false and ignores the years of subtle advertising in Hollywood movies.
And also if you do that ^ ^ ^
I mean whatever it takes
Human Resources Therapy?
Hormone replacement therapy