I’ve never smoked, but I’ve been around people that do. What do people feel during/after smoking? It doesn’t seem to make people high or hallucinate or anything. It maybe mildly relaxes them?

  • Kalash@feddit.ch
    142·
    9 months ago

    With a hidey lidey lidey and a hidey lidey lay We work and we make cigarettes all hidey lidey day So folks can get a breaky from their stressful lidey lives And relaxy with the cigarettes we make all day and night

    I like to have a cigarette every now and then It makes me feel calmer when the day is at an end.

    And if it gives me cancer when I’m eighty I don’t care Who the hell wants to be ninety anyway?

    So with a hidey lidey lidey and a hidey lidey lay We work and we make cigarettes all hidey lidey day So folks can get a breaky from their stressful lidey lives And relaxy with the cigarettes we make all day and night

    • number6@feddit.nl
      7·
      9 months ago

      Most of the smokers I’ve known don’t even get close to 80, and are often very sickly when they do. Two family members that didn’t make it to 60. A healthy looking co-worker who dropped dead in the parking lot. A former boss who didn’t get to enjoy more than two years retirement.

      Cigarettes are the only consumer product that, when used as directed, kill their consumers.

      • PickTheStick@lemmy.world
        5·
        9 months ago

        Nah, alcohol shares the same boat. There are lots of examples if you really dig into the effects of various things. Alcohol and tobacco just kill you so slowly that it doesn’t drop profits.

        • number6@feddit.nl
          41·
          9 months ago

          No. Smoking is way more personally dangerous than alcohol, except for auto accidents. Tobacco hurts you in so many different ways – with sagging skin, lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, stained teeth, strokes, hypertension. Also, alcohol addicts only represent about 10% of the drinking public, whereas about 90% of smokers become chain-smoking addicts.

          And, as I mentioned, smoking often kills people a decade short of retirement. Drinkers, on the other hand, often reach old age.

          Not justifying alcohol, but there are so many downsides to smoking. But you can’t explain that to an addict.