What is the leftypol consensus on smoking? (Specifically tobacco)
Is it cool or nah?
What does it feel like? Does it actually calm you down?
How many of you guys smoke?
Are there any situations in which smoking may actually be GOOD for you?
Does it make you better looking?
20 posts and 2 image replies omitted.>In the 1980s, the pro-union Economic Policy Institute think tank took money from the Tobacco Institute, a now-defunct tobacco industry trade group, to oppose excise taxes on the tobacco industry's behalf. The Tobacco Institute worked with groups like EPI "to support the release of studies, editorials, press briefings, and testimony against regressive excise taxes" that would negatively impact the tobacco industry's bottom line if passed.>According to EPI, about 29% of its funding between 2005 and 2009 was supplied by labor unions and about 53% came from foundation grantsUnion Women, the Tobacco Industry, and Excise Taxes A Lesson in Unintended Consequences
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2712937/ >>766998so… i should only buy chinese cigarettes?
>>766957There’s no specific physiognomy for teens and twenties.
Also, smoking to look more mature is shallow
its not cool but gives you a addiction to stress about rather than anything really stressfull. thats why im smoking but its hella expensive these days.
My mom has been on nicorette for 40 years. I think you're only supposed to need it for like 9 months, but she doesn't want to go back to candy. Without the gum, she is addicted to red and pink starbursts. I'm glad she doesn't smoke, but it is "cooler" than loudly chewing gum.
Tobacco makes me ill. It's for that reason I cannot smoke spliffs.