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u/Odd_Protection7738 Fuck martians I hate martians Jun 28 '26
My dad when he can’t smoke in the car and blow the smoke all over me for 15 minutes:
Fr, he always tells me to “just open my window,” but I sit behind him in the car and the smoke he blows out of the window ends up straight back in my face no matter what.
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u/VibrisCholerae Jun 28 '26
I used to kick the seat the hardest I could everytime he smoked, saying "sorry I'm addicted to kicking car seats"
"just stop"
"you first"
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u/that_one_3DS_fan Jun 28 '26
That's an amazing tactic
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u/Simone_Galoppi07 Jun 28 '26
yeah like it surprises me how many people had parents who wouldn't at least slap them for such a thing, the world might be healing?
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u/TheAngriestPoster Jun 28 '26
Eventually when you hit your teens you might become stronger than your dad. Stops being physically scary after that
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u/Simone_Galoppi07 Jun 28 '26
eh it depends.
like if your dad is a manual worker like mine, and he had you in his 20s or early 30s, then it's still unlikely that you get to beat him.
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u/TheAngriestPoster Jun 29 '26
Mine was too. He made the mistake of putting me into martial arts and wrestling
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u/Mithrandir_Earendur Jun 28 '26
I was in a car with my friend and his mum was driving and she blew it out the wi dow but I was behind her and she was so suprised when I asked if she could stop or blow it a different direction. Like the thought had never occurred to her. My friend didnt get it either.
Not growing up around smokers really throws them for a loop when you point out how much it affects.
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u/Odd_Protection7738 Fuck martians I hate martians Jun 28 '26
He does, but the smoke just blows back in through mine.
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u/SeverePanic3794 Jun 28 '26
Wait then why is your window open if he's blowing smoke out his window already?
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u/Odd_Protection7738 Fuck martians I hate martians Jun 28 '26
He thinks he’s helping by making everyone open the window, but it really only helps my mom and brother on the passenger side of the car, and fucks me over.
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u/SeverePanic3794 Jun 28 '26
Oh that sucks. My dad would usually just get out of the car to smoke, like at a gas station or whatever, but even when he smoked in the car he'd let me keep my window up. I assume you've tried to tell your dad that having your window down doesn't help?
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u/ScavengeRat Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Some people or kids can't tolerate second-hand smoking, so they would try their best to 'avoid' it as much as possible by having the window down hoping for the wind to help lessen it, but it blows back in your face. It may sound stupid, however that's the only option if the smoker didn't want to put it out.
SOURCE: Had experienced this with both parents and 2 older sisters, except me and my little sister.
EDIT: Oh, and you're probably seated next to them because of limited space or whatever. Also, grammar errors.
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u/Valuable-Farm3126 Jun 28 '26
My mum would constantly smoke in the car and once the ash blew back into my window behind her and burned a hole in my school uniform blazer 😫
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u/ven-solaire Jun 29 '26
My dad used to smoke every drive he had to pick us up for partial custody. At some point he stopped and started claiming he never smoked before. Then years later i found a chair behind the garage and a bunch of cigarette butts. He continues to say he’s never smoked.
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u/lamest-liz Jun 29 '26
My mom wouldn’t even open any windows in the 90’s. I remember yelling at her “YOURE GIVING ME CANCER” and she rolled her eyes and rolled down the window.
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u/XxXDizzyLizzie Jun 28 '26
I'm on day eight of no cigarettes and I'm dying lol my head hurts but I'm trying
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u/sdrawssA_kcaB Jun 28 '26
First 2 weeks are the worst and the cravings never truly go away. I quit 4 years ago and every once in a while I’ll think about it again and have to distract myself to keep away from it.
It does help that the smell is enough to deter me. I can’t believe I’d never noticed how obtuse it is but your brain just masks it in favor of getting that next fix.
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u/DjcOMSA Jun 28 '26
It never fully goes away, but it will get less and less. 10+ years from me and I very rarely ever have a craving now. Maybe once a year after a few beers, but even those seem to be getting weaker as time goes on.
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u/Giyuisdepression Jun 29 '26
As an asthmatic, I simply cant understand how people get into smoking at all because of the smell. It punches me in the face whenever I even get a whiff, and then its starts feeling hard to breathe…
Truly its the propaganda at fault, not the users, but I struggle to walk through busy city streets because of that horrid smell without feeling like im suffocating, and I wish smokers understood that. Maybe they wouldnt smoke if they knew
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u/JesPsamson Jun 28 '26
My gramps was a chronic somker once
Then one day he thought why'd he leave himself being in a vulnerable state enough to hurt his loved ones
On that day he exited out of it & never looked back
Me along with his third generation of family is exultantly happy that he is doing whatever he likes cause of his healthy body & mind like riding badass cruiser bikes even in this late 70's
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u/XxXDizzyLizzie Jun 28 '26
That definitely gives me hope for health recovery and that I'm not too late to quit when it comes to damage, thats awesome for your gramps!!! Im definitely trying, the headaches and sweats have been very difficult lol
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u/fuzzhead12 Jun 29 '26
I’ve always been mindblown by not only the level of physical recovery that is possible for even veteran smokers to achieve, but also by just how insanely quickly it begins.
Within 24 hours carbon monoxide levels in the lungs drop back to normal. In a day or two the cilia in the lungs begin to repair. After a week breathing is noticeably easier. And after just a month or two lung function improves by up to 30%
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u/Sesetti Jun 28 '26
I had heard stories about my grandpa being a massive smoker until he suddenly quit out of the blue. My parents had always assumed that it was probably because my dad was about to be born and he wanted to make sure that he's going to be there for him.
I decided to ask him about it when he was on his deathbed. He told me that it was just because he told his friends that he could stop whenever he wanted, and none of them believed him. He quit on the spot and never smoked after that.
I was pretty underwhelmed and kind of impressed at the same time, but knowing my grandpa that reason is a lot more believable than just doing it out of some inner sense of parental responsibility. There was nothing he wouldn't do to win a bet.
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u/RevolutionAccurate56 Jun 28 '26
My granddad was a long time smoker too, but he managed to quit a good while ago. He’s still alive at 90 but unfortunately it caught up to him and he’s got lung cancer, stage 4. But imagine how much faster it would’ve ended had he not. I still get to see him for a time longer because he made that immense effort
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u/ThisIsMyComment2 Jun 28 '26
Good for you, hope you succeed. I think it should get better. Coffee helps with headaches I think.
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u/elchuni I want bbw Teto Jun 28 '26
Yeah, that's what addiction does. What did you expect?
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u/Turbulent-Advisor627 Jun 28 '26
Idk maybe people could just not be addicted?
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u/birbhorse Jun 28 '26
wow, that's the secret cure to addiction: just don't be addicted
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u/Turbulent-Advisor627 Jun 28 '26
Yeah pretty much. You are either addicted or you are not.
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u/Ill-Luck-1397 Jun 28 '26
Surely you must be working at a rehab center, how else could you have achieved this amazing knowledge!?
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u/Awkward_Swordfish581 Jun 28 '26
Just like the cure to losing weight. Just dont be fat! /s
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u/ThisIsMyComment2 Jun 28 '26
It is very similar to the cure to losing weight, just eat less calories while moving the same amount or exercise more while eating the same.
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u/murder_nectar Jun 28 '26
No, the secret to losing weight is to just not be able to afford food. Learned that trick in college 😉
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u/GoshaT burn my bread Jun 28 '26
Basic decency to not give second-hand smoke to others. Here people straight up smoke at bus stops next to a dozen people or when you're brushing your teeth at the sinks in the uni dormitory and don't see an issue
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u/cabbage16 Jun 28 '26
But the little ducky is upset at not being able to smoke. Not having basic decency would mean that the ducky would just smoke anyway. The ducky in the gif is showing basic decency but is merely struggling with it because they are a victim of addiction.
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u/FingerDemon Jun 28 '26
This was me, it was awful.
One year free, still feel the pull from time to time, but at least I feel disgusted in myself for craving it.
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u/Critical_Praline7035 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Hell yeah, keep it up! I relapsed after some rough life events and I'm trying to quit again. It's just as much a bitch as the first time, wish I'd never gone back to it
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u/Ape_x_Ape Jun 28 '26
Same here. I quit for 8 years and then smoked again during a rough patch. Now I'm almost 2 years off again. Find that non smoker in you again, they're in there, get them talking again with snacks, distractions and replacements like gum and walks, bike rides, etc. until you start feeling your lungs clearing up and you can start noticing real cash savings and other subtle but huge benefits. Also, I had my morning cigarette with the illustrated version of "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" by Allen Carr and I was quit by the time I finished the silly little comic book. It really effectively lays out all the reasons why you actually do want to quit.
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u/buglz Jun 28 '26
Came to post the same thing but now I’m commenting here instead. I’m like 12 years off of nicotine and I don’t get cravings anymore, I don’t miss anything about it anymore and it smells like shit when other people do it. Quitting is hard as balls and you’re a baller for doing it and there is 100% a point where you’re DONE done with it. Keep it up
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u/commonbleachenjoyer stewart Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Thr gif broke for me so it looks like he's just standing there peacefully
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u/Wrench_gaming Jun 28 '26
I want to try a social experiment
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u/Present_Error_6256 Jun 28 '26
As someone who enjoys the occasional edible, I agree with this 100%. Weed addiction is weirdly normalized online.
Also, weed smokers need to realize that they fucking REEK. Bro, please change your goddamn clothes after you smoke. You smell like a skunk died in your pocket.
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u/distastef_ll Jun 28 '26
Why smoke when edibles are easier to consume, pack a stronger punch, and leave no odor behind?
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u/PayWooden2628 Jun 28 '26
Because it’s a different feeling. To me, smoking actual weed, hitting a pen, and doing edibles all has a distinct noticeable difference in how it feels. Edibles make me feel “heavier” than smoking.
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u/determined_vagabond Jun 28 '26
Plus edibles are a way bigger time commitment. If I want to wake and bake on a Saturday morning and play video games I can smoke and be back to sober by lunch time to get out of the house. I only take edibles when I’m planning on rotting all day lmao.
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u/_you_need_jesus_ Jun 29 '26
People who smoke dont understand just how powerfull weed smells. If you can smell you smoking from a couple blocks away dont you think that smell sticks to your clothes? Its not socially acceptable to smell unwashed, so why should it be ok to smell like a skunk.
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u/smoretank Jun 28 '26
Its worse than skunk for me. I love the smell of skunk oddly enough. Weed is like a skunk went to a perfume factory and exploded. Smokey sickly sweet smell with a bit a musk. It gives me migraines its so strong. Cigarettes do the same but I have to be right on a person to smell the Cigarettes. Weed can be several yards away.
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u/nicknamesas Jun 28 '26
I, myself, do not use that much. I do, however, know that if they are smoking really stinky stuff like that, it is super low quality. My GF dad grew some of his own next to a blue berry patch and got some expensive seeds. Shit smelled like burnt blueberry muffins whenever he smoked.
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u/xPriddyBoi Jun 28 '26
Because it's not chemically addictive like nicotine is. People can still get addicted to the sensation and overconsume, for sure, but it's not the same. Notice in this thread people having crippling headaches and withdrawal symptoms for quitting cigs for a week. Simply doesn't happen with MJ. I smoke a lot and still quit for months at a time regularly with no adverse effects.
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u/WaywardOath Jun 28 '26
The issue however is that someone will hear that a substance is 'not technically an addictive substance', and view that as the go-ahead to be basically perpetually high.
Sure, you can quit it and not get withdrawal symptoms, but that doesn't mean you're engaging with a substance in a healthy manner, physically or mentally.
I knew someone who basically smoked a bowl every 30 minutes or so, and was incredibly anxious and antisocial without it. They never used to be that way, it developed over time from years and years of nonstop use.
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u/xPriddyBoi Jun 28 '26
Sure, it becomes a coping mechanism and people regress to the point that they're unable to be comfortable with their sober state of anxiety, or pain, or whatever. But the thing is, that's the same for literally everything.
People become dependent on caffeine to the point that they can't operate without coffee and multiple energy drinks every day, people get obese because they binge eat to cope with stress, people get addicted to porn and gambling for similar reasons.
Just as much as there's a group of diehard weed enthusiasts who insist there are no negatives whatsoever and it can't be abused, there are a group of people who vehemently hate it to an unreasonable degree and treat it like a chemically addictive substance in the same vein as things like heroin.
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u/Hax_ Jun 29 '26
You're a liar if you think there's no side effects to quitting weed when you're deep in it. I've done it 5 times and every time it's misery for at least a week.
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u/Chance-Ask7675 Jun 29 '26
Who cares lol. Gambling isnt chemically addictive and gambling addiction its still viewed poorly, as it should be. Plenty of other similar cases. How easily someone can quit an addiction should have no bearing on how acceptable it is. Weed and weed addiction has destroyed a lot of people I know. I mean sure, as a substance its not as addictive as like heroine, and maybe at some point it made sense to point out that distinction...but that is an incredibly low bar.
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u/Snowappletini Jun 28 '26
I have nothing against weed but I dislike the people that smoke it in public or before a function. The skunk smell is annoying and they don't even sense it anymore.
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u/basilsflowerpots Jun 28 '26
there are 3 of them staying in the AirBNB next to me 🥀🥀 the smell is genuinely terrible and it wafts over multiple times a day too. couldn't even have my windows open during the heatwave in europe or the smell would pretty quickly fill my house
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u/Blue_Alu05 Jun 28 '26
Fr, the shit smell it leaves is somehow worse than the one from a normal cigarette.
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u/Snowappletini Jun 28 '26
Yeah, fr. And it's much stronger too. You can smell a weed smoker from a block away, it's crazy. People just get used to it.
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u/Art-Zuron Jun 28 '26
When I'm at work, I can smell the moment a smoker (of any kind) so much as walks through the front doors sometimes.
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u/DefunctCube Jun 28 '26
Smoking anything is terrible, nowadays its hip to use convection to boil the oil straight off the flower into vapor, and inhale that. Tiny flower vape devices. My dad hates the smell, and he says he can’t tell whenever I ask. Its easy to see every pothead as having no self consciousness when there are alot more of us than you realize, and you just cant tell because we actually consider other people
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u/Sixsignsofalex94 Jun 28 '26
I think it’s more about travel? I think cigarettes smell awful but they seem to disappear into the air a lot faster. Weed you can smell half a mile away
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u/SASSIESASSQUATCH Jun 28 '26
Also works like this when you tell them it’s not appropriate to drive under the influence.
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u/ThrashCW Jun 28 '26
As someone who has been a heavy smoker of both nicotine and cannabis products at various points in my life I can promise you it is a night and day difference. It was very easy to get through an 8 hour shift and keep busy without wanting to smoke a bong load, but next to impossible to go 4 hours without wanting to tear my hair out because I can't have a cigarette.
Cannabis is extremely, pervasively habit forming, especially when it's being abused. Nicotine is just straight up one of the most chemically addictive substances known to man.
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u/Bitter-Grocery-7138 Jun 28 '26
Yeah the same but I would change family to friends because I see more weed addicts smoking with friends
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u/spaceursid rarely serious Jun 28 '26
Yea reminds me of Christmas season 2006 when my step dad had a tempertantrum after my mom told him he we had to spend money on a Christmas tree instead of weed. He stayed in the passenger seat of the car after we got out at the tree lot. Then started flailing yelling and kicking at my mom's windshield til it cracked. Also threw our left over lunch around the car.
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u/_Planet_Mars_ the Jun 28 '26
I've only ever known one weed smoker. He offered me a try once, I said no, and he understood and never brought it up again.
Every alcoholic I've ever known seemed to be annoyed or genuinely angry about me not wanting to drink.
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u/nicknamesas Jun 28 '26
I worked at a gas station liquor store. I do not drink myself. Mutliple people did not believe me that i don't partake and 1 got actually angry about it.
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u/Wh01sHex Jun 28 '26
the ones that do push it suck aaassss though. i knew a pair of stoners that were high pretty much every time we hung out after we got to know each other, and they would always Offer it and have like this slight eyeroll vibe when i refused. but ofc they didnt even need to pressure me on directly, because when they were stoned they were just so unbelievably unfun that there was always an unspoken vibe of "youll be able to actually connect with them if you were also high" going on. vividly remember chilling and doing art in there (that they also wanted to join in on before they got high) while they were just wide eyed dead silent watching family guy i felt like i was going insane lmao
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u/DyingGasp Jun 28 '26
Yep, I take gummies on occasion and if someone is eyeballing what I have or asks, I’ll offer and tell them the dosage. If they say no, end of story.
But I don’t drink and you say that and everyone is always, “really? Why not?” I just say I’m a recovering alcoholic as it shuts the conversation down.
What I hate most of the people that vape indoors. Especially when they straight up blow it in my direction.
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u/TheGargant Jun 28 '26
No-no-no you see weed is based! And you can't be against it because coffee and sugar are drugs too but you consume them! And-and it helps us, weed smokers, to survive unbearable pain caused by touching things or something!
I don't understand why Reddit is so weed obsessed... literally just the same shit as cigs bit probably even worse
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u/Ecstatic_nyaa Jun 28 '26
Bro you should not take people like this seriously. I smoke weed everyday I have my own reasons but I would never defend it nor encourage people to do it.
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u/TheGargant Jun 29 '26
Yeah, probably. It's just so weird to me, former cig smoker, that weed smokers defend and even promote their addiction.
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u/FazzyFreaks Jun 28 '26
My grandpa was like this and used to smoke right after church cause he was the pastor and didn’t want people to see him smoke. Problem was that he smoked in the car with me and my little sister in it when we were kids and we both had bad asthma so it was hell.
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u/PLACE-H0LD3R It's PURPLE!? Arrgh, that stupid bug said it was FUCHSIA!! Jun 28 '26
It's almost like they're addicted to it or something
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u/I_Am_Stoeptegel Jun 28 '26
It’s also just weird to see this sudden surge of anti-smoker memes.
Trust me, we already know it’s bad. I don’t know a single smoker that actually still enjoys smoking, it’s a fucking addiction
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u/NateNate60 Jun 28 '26
Tobacco smokers or e-cigarette smokers? Because people who vehemently claim vaping is not bad for them are extremely common in my area.
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u/Zerothian Jun 28 '26
Those people are idiots. I saw so many of them when vaping was still pretty niche and it has only gotten worse. Like sure it's better than smoking, but the ideal objectively neither.
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u/Blossomie Jun 28 '26
Oddly enough in my neck of the woods the rhetoric seems to be that vaping is far worse for you than smoking. Then again, a lot of this might be influenced by the cigarette companies which are currently trying their hardest to get legislation passed that bans any vape that isn’t cigarette-flavoured, on account of them losing business when people decide to switch from cigs to vape for harm reduction. They have been circulating all sorts of myths and propaganda about it.
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u/Zerothian Jun 28 '26
Oh yeah the misinfo on that side is crazy as well. Honestly I just find it sad, I personally found vaping to be an incredible cessation tool. Nothing else I ever tried worked for more than a week or even less. Vaping I quite literally never picked up a cig since the day I got my first vape.
You can ween yourself off nicotine so much easier with a vape too, then you just need to kick the mouth/hands habit which ironically was the hardest part for me lol, even more so than the nicotine.
So to see it used the way kids are now, who weren't even smoking before, that sucks.
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u/FamousSquash Jun 28 '26
My car has a strict "no smoking" policy. When I give certain people rides they always ALWAYS insist that they NEED to smoke. Bitch, it's a 15-minute drive. You can smoke when we fucking get there.
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u/NateNate60 Jun 28 '26
Seems like they need the cigarette more than they need the ride, in that case
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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount Jun 29 '26
Routines often times go hand in hand with addiction. They don't even realize it until they try and quit.
Getting in a car is that for a lot of people. I didn't smoke in my car but that smoke when I got home was *required* when I got home.
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u/benjoo1551 Jun 28 '26
I'm not THAT bothered by when they like take a break and have a smoke outside but I've been to several movie theatre showings where people in the audience started vaping mid-movie and that really pissed me off
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u/pinkenbrawn Jun 28 '26
yea get a gum or a patch or a nic pack or something if it’s that bad 💀
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u/GNightP ☢️!!!HORNED BITCH ALERT!!!☢️ Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
My sister smokes, and with all love in the world, i HATE her for that.
For fuck's sake, her breath smells like a chaminee, her front teeths seems like they're rotting, she can't run 5 seconds without gasping for air and can't lift a rice sack. Guess her age... she's 25.
And the worst is, she's a fuckin' idiot about the butts of her cigarretes. We live in a damn nature area, full of animals and birds, and she insists on throwing the butts on the ground where said animals go to eat grass, eat seeds or whatever they find.
But for sure, she makes me go away from ever smoking.
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u/Pvt_Penguini Jun 28 '26
Time to rant about my family's trip to universal where after every single ride we had to stop for a smoke break that took at least 10 minutes so we ended up skipping a ton of stuff because we ran out of time. And God forbid you tried to go on your own for a bit because you got tired of waiting and then get a rant about how you're ruining it for everyone.
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u/D3dshotCalamity Jun 28 '26
My friend started vaping to help him quit smoking. Now he smokes AND vapes
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u/Bronze_Hallodude dm me unnerving images Jun 28 '26
Addiction’s like that. im not saying they should do it near people but I get why it’d agitate them
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u/WestlyS Jun 28 '26
The number of times my ex snuck a hit in a store, hell she did it in her hoodie sleeve at DINNER WITH MY PARENTS. Like Ive smoked, but I do not understand this obsessive compulsion to hit the thing every few minutes. It makes no sense.
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u/Mother-Ad-3522 Jun 28 '26
Couple things I hate about cigarette smokers is that everyone else has to feel their addiction. People always throw their cigarettes out on the highway or when they’re told to smoke outside, they’ll smoke directly near the entrance or exit so every person nearby has to smell like shit and death with them. One of the worst addictions out there. It should be banned in all countries
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u/BP642 Jun 28 '26
Underaged smoking was reduced drastically for decades until vaping showed up
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u/KiwiPowerGreen Jun 28 '26
genuinely disgusting how many children they got addicted (many also taking the pipe line to regular smoking) so these companies could make loads of money off of it
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u/Roraxn Jun 29 '26
numbers were still declining when vaping showed up, it wasn't until later when things like Jule - the disposable nicotine vapes showed up. Cheaper than a pack of cigs, still got a nicotine high, looked cool in highschool.
Oh look its unchecked capitalism at it again.
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u/Powerful-Chard-6055 Jun 28 '26
Got a cig thrown on me last night. Even if it missed me, it would’ve landed on grass
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u/fireballin1747 Jun 28 '26
i was at our local pride event yesterday and SO many people were hitting a nicotine vape directly in the middle of crowds/populated areas -w-
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u/The1FromThe3 Jun 28 '26
You think being in public or with family is enough to stop them from smoking? And for so long as 3 hours!?
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u/Sick_Narf Jun 29 '26
people tryna live life healthily and then some asshole degenerate smokes near them but apparently it's "okay" because the smokers are so poor because they're addicted oh boohoo woe is me wuwhwuwhwu everyone should feel my addiction 😢😢😢
selfish fucking assholes
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u/Fendfor Jun 28 '26
Im 4 years quit but this is what i see anytime a non smoker smells cigarette smoke.
I used to stand down wind, tucked it behind my back anytime someone passed, the whole nine yards. And people still came up to me to complain.
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u/Runo_Slinger Jun 29 '26
I’ve started work on a farm after a 5 year break from that world and it’s upsetting seeing my coworkers sometimes. We have 17 year old kids smoking Marlboro reds and coughing like 50 year old men with a pocket full of chewing tobacco and a vape in their knife pouch.
Fucking insane. When I was their age there was a taboo on substance abuse. What happened to school programs for this shit?
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u/Yorrins Jun 28 '26
Mad that anyone is addicted to this shit in 2026 lmao. I can at least forgive the boomers when they didnt know how bad they were and they were cheap.
Now everyone knows they are cancer sticks and they cost like €1 per cigarette.
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u/CommieDrifter Jun 28 '26
lots of people grew up in smoking households and have been addicted since childhood
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u/NieMonD Jun 28 '26
I grew up with an indoor smoking mother and it just instilled a deep extreme hatred of cigarettes into me
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u/deeSeven_ Jun 28 '26
From my own experience of the smokers I know, they're largely comprised of people who have very stressful lives or jobs who believe that they're gonna die before the health issues affect them (even though that's not likely to be the case). Even if the high is shit, it's stilloften enough to get people through a stressful shift or day without heavily impeding their judgement.
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u/probably_around Jun 28 '26
addict genes kind of trumps potential cancer unfortunately
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u/ChloroquineEmu Jun 28 '26
Nocotine addicts when they can't make everything and everyone around them smell like shit
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u/SinisterVeteran Jun 28 '26
It's almost like they experience physical and mental symptoms without nicotine. Crazy right?
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u/Downtown-Ice-5022 Jun 28 '26
In my experience they just go somewhere and smoke real quick then come back
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u/EffortIndividual6029 Jun 28 '26
I legit wonder if my dad would actually try to stop smoking if one of my family members gets cancer from 2nd-hand smoking. He clearly won't stop even after getting hospitalised multiple times for it. I know he's the one who's sick, but it just gets harder and harder to feel sympathy for a man who ordered you to grieve him while doing nothing to keep himself alive. He treats my mum like shit despite her working her ass off to cover his hospital bills btw.
I'm tired of grieving for him. I'm going to make him grieve me.
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u/MatthewBlack6 Jun 28 '26
Smelly junkies.
I've been tobacco free for over a decade. Best decision I ever made.
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u/MarsieRed Jun 28 '26
This is also me when I smell smokers. I can’t stand it bro, I feel sick. I already spent a whole day with people who use perfume instead of water when showering, and the moment I escape them I immediately bump into you.
Stop attackanizing meeee :[
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u/Anthony643364 Jun 28 '26
How I feel when I finally get back from a family trip and can violently goon for 4 hours straight
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u/Vraex Jun 28 '26
My dad and I have never been to a movie theater together. He doesn’t like them because he can’t smoke. Kinda sad
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u/AcePowderKeg Jun 28 '26
I'm an ex heavy smoker(2 packs a day) Stopped completely 1.5 years ago.
Nicotine is nothing but highly addictive poison. Thanks to the specialized therapy I did I'm actually happier now that when I was a smoker. I never want to go back to that addiction.
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u/Street_Bluejay_1465 Jun 29 '26
Smokers are insufferable. And I have to deal with them as a security guard asking them to remain in the smoking area . . . on a factory ground with hazardous chemicals, you would think I was asking them to strangle their firstborn
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u/WreakHavocLikeIn1871 Jun 28 '26
Well there's nicotine pouches, nicotine gums, snuff, snus, nicotine patches, chew, and many more options that you don't smoke.
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u/emo_boy_fucker Jun 28 '26
who knew the chemical addiction would cause you to lose your shit emotionally when withdrawn from said addiction because chemicals control your brain
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u/Highway27734 Jun 28 '26
I had successfully quit smoking...until spending time with my family. True story.
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u/Disasterhuman24 Jun 28 '26
Im one month into quitting nic. This post is some real shit, I felt like a fool having to constantly walk away or walk outside every 30 min. The social stigma of smoking was a bigger motivation to quit than my health.
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u/NeverCallMeFifi Jun 28 '26
We are driving back from looking at some houses. One of them stunk of smoke so much that the realtor wouldn't go in and we did one turn and left. House has been on market 130 days and keeps dropping the price. Sad thing is, it had all these pictures of their baby on the wall.
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u/DoTheDoggyPaddle Jun 28 '26
I’m 9 months free of nicotine and weed. Smoke of all kind. I feel so much better overall, it’s great 👍
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u/TannerCreeden Jun 29 '26
No please don’t seek help I actually want to smell that nasty shit all 8 hours of my work shift
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u/Bruce10Wayne Jun 29 '26
I quit vaping in December last year. I used a Juul for like 9-10 years. Family gatherings I’d just go to the bathroom and hit it a few times to get by, working in an office I’d do the same, but the toughest was a long flight. Anything beyond like a 2-3 hour flight was brutal, I’d have to rip the thing many times right before boarding and then hustle to the bathroom right after landing to do the same. Also would have to buy tons of pods if I was traveling because of not only lack of availability of the pods but also the price in other places was sky high. Glad I ditched it but my lord I get a craving for that thing from time to time especially if I have a couple drinks.
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u/GrassTouchEnthusiast Jun 28 '26
Nah just sneak it when they’re not looking or go to the bathroom like a real addict
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u/SavageFisherman_Joe depressed unfunny fisherman that watches vtubers Jun 28 '26
As someone whose job involves cleaning bathrooms, I don't think you realize how expensive commercial-grade air freshener can be
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u/SLKfan7 Jun 28 '26
Idk I think making fun of people struggling with addiction is kinda fucked up
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u/Over_Heed ModsBreakingRule#9OverAGruElMachoGIFByNukingAFlairWasPureCinema. Jun 28 '26
I hope that you are doing well.
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u/0x7E7-02 Jun 28 '26
Nicotine is THE most difficult chemical to break addiction from. It's easier to break free from heroin.
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u/Archiive Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
That didn't sound right to me so I did a bit of googling, and it's not true.
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/adult-addiction-treatment-programs/hardest-quit
It's like number 5 on the (this) list, but if you actually read about it, the main reason the addiction is hard to break is only 50 % because of the actual chemical and has just as much to do with breaking habits.
Don't spread misinformation, please.
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u/flibbertygibbette Jun 28 '26
That's still insurmountably difficult / unrealistic to expect people to be able to "just get over", though. Being comparable or on list with fucking heroin makes it pretty impossible for most people.
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u/RevolutionAccurate56 Jun 28 '26
They never said it wasn’t hard, all they did was correct someone who said it was harder than getting off heroin
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u/Archiive Jun 28 '26
I NEVER said it wasn't hard, but the top comment literally said "THE most difficult chemical to break addiction from."
Not only is it just straight up wrong and misinformation. It minimizes the struggles drug addicts go through.
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u/CustodianCloset The Teto guy who likes Economics Jun 28 '26
Don't fuck with redditors, they can't read.
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u/tayswampflorida Jun 28 '26
Sugar actually tops nicotine.
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u/M4rt1m_40675 Jun 29 '26
I'm imagining a sugar addict and I really can't see anything else other than eating straight sugar
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u/5joekabob Jun 28 '26
Generally bodies prefer survival.
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u/tayswampflorida Jun 28 '26
Bodies dont require dietary sugar it breaks the required sugar down from foods and transforms it. Refined sugar is completely unneeded and much more harmful than nicotine.
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u/_SlappyMagoo_ Jun 29 '26
“Much more harmful than nicotine” is probably a stretch. This is coming from a nicotine addict that knows what the shit can do to your body (particularly to your cardiovascular system).
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u/TheQuestionMaster8 Jun 28 '26
No its not. Nicotine withdrawal is nowhere near as bad as from Heroin and Heroin can cause post-acute withdrawal symptoms of depression, anxiety and cognitive impairment that can last for months.
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u/astralchanterelle Jun 28 '26
Not really. People like to say that but it makes no sense. Opioid/opiate withdrawal is pure hell., people go to the grave to avoid it. Nicotine withdrawal is irritability and a headache.
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u/xSaitoHx Jun 28 '26
Where I work at people burn through 2 packs per 12 hour shift EVERY SINGLE DAY, they go for a smoke break about twice, sometimes three times per hour and I just don't understand it.
These are also the sorts of people that will complain about having to spend money and be as scummy and greedy as possible, while also spending like 20€+ per day on cigarettes.
I tried them once and they are just gross, and smell about as bad as shit, doesn't matter if they are the cheapest or most expensive ones.
Same goes for weed.
They absolutely tweak or lose it if we are somewhere they can't go smoke for more than an hour.
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u/Customninjas Jun 28 '26
Why are we making fun of addicts
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u/ImprobableCastration Awawa Jun 28 '26
"Why can't these degenerates suffer in noble silence like us Good Christians?" type shit.
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u/Misubi_Bluth Jun 28 '26
Because Reddit seems to consistently think it knows better than psychologists and trained professionals who deal with mental health problems, like addiction, every day
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u/PancakeParty98 Jun 29 '26
It’s Doctor Phil logic. You see a problem and the obvious solution and then you assume the victim must be an idiot for not using the obvious solution
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u/TheRealMorndas Jun 28 '26
Like every other month on this sub all the puritans gather together to make fun of addicts or just shit in people who like to drink alcohol as if they don't have caffeine addictions themselves
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u/H0rny_On-Main Jun 28 '26
Jokes on you I don't drink coffee either. I'm rawdogging life and it fucking sucks.
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u/SavageFisherman_Joe depressed unfunny fisherman that watches vtubers Jun 28 '26
Because I get paid to clean up after them and remind them to obey the signs that are literally ten feet away from them
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u/Misubi_Bluth Jun 28 '26
I will at least give you that being an addict isn't an excuse to never use a trash can. It takes little effort to just...smoke outside and not litter.
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u/Gamer102kai Jun 28 '26
So we can grandstand our objective moral superiority over them for a struggle we have never once embroiled ourselves in. Makes me feel good to punch down yk
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u/ArborealVarmint Jun 28 '26
Because their addiction harms plenty of people who aren’t addicted, and is extremely frustrating to be around.
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u/Waste-Time-2440 Jun 28 '26
People who voluntarily got addicted to something known to be addictive since before they were born? I wonder.
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u/whyusognarpgnap i changed it hahahahahahhahahahahahaha Jun 28 '26
Jarvis, I'm low on karma, post monthly "SMOKER BAD!!!!"
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u/LaughOdd6345 Jun 28 '26
Well if you're in public specifically why can't you just walk a few feet away to have a smoke? Unless you're in Japan, since you would have to walk a mile just to find a smoking area.
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u/SavageFisherman_Joe depressed unfunny fisherman that watches vtubers Jun 28 '26
Not all public places allow smoking
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u/Standard-Ad-7504 Jun 28 '26
Well yeah, that's how nicotine works. I don't smoke it but from what I've heard from people who do, it doesn't even feel that good after a while and you stay addicted to it because there are withdrawal symptoms if you don't. Yeah they still gotta quit but the process will involve some really bad headaches on the way there.
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