ooli3America’s Smoking Habit Just Hit a Wild Milestone That Once Seemed Impossible
As someone that’s been surrounded by smokers - if you can avoid it, please do. It will save you a fuck ton of money and health problems.
It’s more addictive than heroine. Don’t give those fucks your money or health.
It may be more addictive than heroin but the average person doesn’t understand that doesn’t mean the withdrawals are not worse, just the insipid craving
ToastedRavioliWhat? The average person definitely understands that heroin has more severe withdrawal symptoms than cigarettes. Wtf are you talking about?
Saying substance X is more addictive than substance Y is a fully different statement than substance X has more severe withdrawal symptoms than substance Y.
Alcohol has such severe withdrawal symptoms that it can easily kill people who are severely addicted to alcohol. But alcohol is not nearly as addictive as many other things to the point where far less people ever experience that type of withdrawal from alcohol.
Cigarettes are more addictive than heroin, heroin is more addictive than alcohol. In making that type of statement, no one is ever saying that being a smoker is more consequential than being a heroin addict. People dont often turn to theft or prostituting themselves or lose a job over smoking a cigarette… literally everyone understands that
Anyone got that xkcd handy about overestimating general understanding?
Don’t try to converse with someone who uses double- and triple-negatives