sjvnJun 27
Exactly!
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One problem with the OP statement: unlit cigarettes not in the mouth have still proven hazardous to the workers who put cigarettes together.
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sjvnJun 27
Exactly!
Show threadsjvnJun 29
Since many people are responding with serious notes, let me add that my father and youngest brother died from cigarette-related cancers, while my mom died from COPD. All of them were lifelong smokers. Smoking will kill you.
Show threadRasmus LindegaardJun 29

@sjvn my grandfather died from loungcancer from smoking.

My sister in law smokes. The other one... Has done at times. My father in law does. Whenever my kids ask them why; they give vague answers like: because it's a bad habit, because i like to relax that way etc

Both of my brothers started smoking at a young age. Whenever my children ask them, they give different variations on: "because I'm an idiot, and this is the perfect expression of it" 1/2

Show threadRasmus LindegaardJun 29

@sjvn so, some time ago my daughter at 6 or 7 saw her grandfather smoking and says something like "gee grandpa, guess you're an idiot" apparently he was somewhat offended by that and expressed a desire that we should teach our kids that smoking does not make you an idiot.

Personally I'm of the opinion that everyone is an idiot at times. And this specific notion about smoking is not one I'm about to disown them of.

The problem is that grandpa feels the shame when his grandkids confront him.

Show threadnicopapJun 28
@sjvn The obvious difference being that if you release a cigarette in nature, it will linger and pollute. While a squirrel will start digging in nuts a bit everywhere as if driven by an ultimate moral imperative.
Show threadAnjaJun 28
@sjvn poor squirrel!
Show threadMelroy van den BergJun 28
@sjvn they are also harmful for the environment, even if it's not used. And just land up in the landfill.
Show threadRichard LevitteJun 28
@sjvn My brain went "who would ever put a squirrel in their mouth???... oh"
Show threadMichael VilainJun 28

@sjvn When @pluralistic said he quit smoking because he realized he was burning through 2 to 3 laptops/year, this perspective boggles my mind.

I never smoked or wanted to. Both my parents and sister did. RIP.

Show threadOzzelotJun 28
@mvilain
The biggest thing that drove me away from smoking as a teen was seeing computers caked with the resultant gunk. I could never do that to computers.
(Sometime not too long later, I realized I may have a small amount of autism.)
@sjvn @pluralistic
Show threadAllpointsJun 28
@ozzelot @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic I recall cleaning old radio gear that was owned by heavy smokers. It was often sticky on the inside with smoke residue. That was just from smoke in the air. I can only imagine what the inside of their lungs were like. I sometimes spent more time cleaning that gear than I did getting it back into working condition.
#HamRadio #AmateurRadio
Show threadWandrecanadaJun 28

@mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic At a much younger age I worked at a neighborhood convenience store. It was the 90s so they sold a lot of cigarettes.

After seeing local addicts daily for a few years and how much money they lost on their addiction I was never tempted to start. One couple bought 3-4 cartons a week. When I did the math it was like buying a small yacht every year.

Show threadMichael VilainJun 28
@wandrecanada @sjvn @pluralistic I'm so glad I was imprinted with my "comfort food" early in life (12) when I was given hot, sweet tea to settle after a car accident prior to going to the ER to get checked out. Tea has been my "drug of choice" for almost 60 years with sugar a close second.
Show threadWandrecanadaJun 28
@mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic Yep mine is diet soda now. Kept me off alcohol and smoking for almost 20 years.
Show threadDavvaJun 28
@wandrecanada @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic
Ah #capitalism. Getting folk hooked on shit (that they don't need, wrecks their health and wrecks the environment) since 1614!
Show threadf15h   🇺🇦Jun 29
@davva23 @wandrecanada @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic Closer to 1914, during #WW1: “Tobacco was valued as a #wartime necessity, a fact that the tobacco #industry seized upon in its #advertising that featured #soldiers, flags, and all the trappings of a triumphal nation making the world safe for #democracy. At home, tobacco funds were established to ‘send smokes to the boys’, eventually sending 16 billion cigarettes as part of relief by the war’s end.”
https://csts.ua.edu/wwi/introduction/
Introduction – The Makings of a Nation: Tobacco in WWI – The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society

Show threadDavvaJun 29
@f15h @wandrecanada @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic
😮
Show threadLisPiJun 28
@mvilain @pluralistic @sjvn It is similar for alcohol.

Even with the cheapest vodka possible, the cost is absurd.
Show threadRadio Free TrumpistanJun 28
@sjvn
One problem with the OP statement: unlit cigarettes not in the mouth have still proven hazardous to the workers who put cigarettes together.
Show threadZoidberg For PresidentJun 28

@sjvn Actually false... their very existence is dangerous actually...

But nice joke, leave the squirrels alone though. :p