The part I don’t get is that smokers smell like shit standing 6 feet away.
How the fuck is any smoker comfortable with that?
They can’t smell it on themselves. You get so used to the smell that it is completely unobserved by them.
Yea, my sister used to smoke and thought that she could smoke outside and be “smoke free” inside. She didn’t understand I could smell it on her till she showered. So glad she quit.
When you smell something all day, every day for years, your brain just ignores it. It’s called nose blindness.
I wasn’t and that’s actually what finally motivated me to quit. I had just started a job where nobody else smoked and I didn’t want to stink up the cramped office every time I walked in the door. As of this summer it’s been 13 years.
I admit, though I have no interest in smoking myself, it definitely has a cinematic allure in fiction when establishing a character a certain way.
I’m also grateful for it in Hitman, where you can create gas leaks near smoking spots and trigger a convenient accident kill.
I mostly see homeless people and people in rough shape smoking. Probably in their lives it doesn’t matter if they smell like cigarettes. I worked once in a place where one guy of all the employees smoked, and he was basically a social pariah. And people like borderline harassed him for smelling like cigarettes.
He used to smoke out front, then he was asked to smoke on the side of the building because people coming in the building complained, but then people complained about him being on the side of the building and walking near his cloud to their car, so eventually he literally had to smoke either in his car or walk all the way around back and smoke against a brick wall with no windows away from the parking lot. 🤣
It’s crazy how far away you can smell someone smoking. I think it smells awful. Strangely, my grandpa used to regularly smoke a pipe in his office/study at their house in the evening, but he always dumped his pipe outside and kept everything very clean, and it always smelled wonderful in there to me, and even to this day I love the smell of pipe tobacco, so I guess it’s just kind of what you’re familiar with. Or maybe pipe tobacco just doesn’t smell as bad or something idk.
Amateur mistake: It’s needs to be “I will miss you when you are gone (due to smokngl”
People barely smoke anymore. What is it, like 5% of people with a college degree smoke and 5% of people under the age of 30 smoke?
Smokers these days are mostly composed of uneducated, poor, older people. Not to say that is good, but uneducated poor people do a lot of stuff that is killing them. Given the massive decline overall in this generation, I think smoking is going to be much lower on the list of lifestyle risks for uneducated poor people. Obesity is arguably a bigger concern I would say.
I don’t remember the last time I saw someone in their 20s legit smoking a cigarette that wasn’t at a party or something.
What about vaping? It may be somewhat “less” dangerous but likely shares most of the same risks.
Vaping isn’t great, but three things: 1) based on comprehensive, independent reviews of the scientific evidence by both Public Health England (the English Government Public Health agency), the Tobacco Advisory Committee, and other agencies, it’s understood to be 95% safer than smoking. 2) second-hand vape is 99% safer than second-hand cigarette smoke, and 3) vaping doesn’t stink in the same way and it doesn’t linger as long.
That being said, the fastest growing nicotine intake method is nicotine pouches like Zyn, which are even safer than vaping, have no second-hand effects, and don’t have any noticeable odor. They also have much less waste and most of it (the fabric pouch and shredded fibers) are biodegradable. Other than nicotine gum and lozenges, I consider that to be the best ideal substitute for smoking by far.
At that point, it’s barely much of a concern at all. Nicotine pouches are safer than alcohol, and I don’t care if people enjoy nicotine. I just don’t like the parts of smoking that affect other people: health burden, second-hand health burden, and smell.
You’re leaving out a lot of demographics there.
Yeah, so does smoking. That’s my point.
They began testing a vaccine for smoking based cancer a few months ago. Emphysema and COPD are still things to worry about, but cancer might not be for long.
Most smokers die from heart attacks, though.
I am looking to that. Been exposed to a LOT of second hand smoke growing up, and I have various medical problems that increase my risk for cancer, and also the wildfires I’ve had to work in…
People, smoking doesn’t just affect you, and also who the fuck leaves all the doors and windows in a house open during thick wildfire smoke and then demands the person having an anxiety attack to help with heavy lifting outside like come the fuck on
Yeah, well, and loss of sense of smell and all circulation-/heart-related problems might be a teensy bit problematic, too.