This and waiting for Ronnie to end the world with the push of a button.

  • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Not old enough for this, but growing up I had a friend with parents who were heavy smokers. It made a weird relationship in my brain that cigarette smell is related to friends, so for years everytime I smelled a cigarette it would give me some weird nostalgia.

    Eventually I tried 1 cigarette and it made me sick lol

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      4 months ago

      My message to people thinking about trying smoking:

      If you try a cigarette and you don’t like it, it’s a shitty experience. If you try a cigarette and do like it, that’s much worse.

      There’s no upside.

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        4 months ago

        And, for friends who currently smoke, the best line of attack I’ve found is: “You really like giving awful companies like Philip Morris your hard-earned money?”

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        My message to people thinking about trying smoking:

        my message:

        literally why, it’s a waste of time, money, and it’s socially unacceptable, literally do anything other than smoke.

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      3 months ago

      Smoking is something you literally have to develop a taste for. I’ve never heard of anybody who got hooked off of one cigarette.