opinions on cigarettes and smokers

nachonaan said:
As long as they're not near me while smoking, I don't care too much.

DoctorWasabi said:


Then go to prison for it ? No no no kitten

daky-kun said:
No idea why would someone poison themselves, risk to get cancer, and in addition pay for it. Also I'm very bothered by the cigarette smoke. I wish cigarettes were never invented.

kitten said:
smoke weed not cigarettes

Yuriko said:


Smokers don't bother me too the most part some people get really mad when told to smoke outside though. I don't fancy them.

Nilin said:
I smoke weed sometimes.
Is that just as bad?

Clebardman said:


I'd say it's better. It actually has some kind of effect and there's no addiction.

Azu said:

No addiction? Whut.

Azu said:

No addiction? Whut.

Clebardman said:


No addiction. I smoke 8-10 joints/day, I stop for long periods of time at least 4 or 5 times every year. Can't do that with cigarettes.

The only downside there is for me is that I'll have troubles sleeping for the first week without smoking, and might smoke more cigs to do something with my hands.

Nilin said:

Cigarettes contain nicotine that actually get ppl addicted to them.
Marijuana does not.

Azu said:

You must be hardcore to smoke joints without nicotine then.

Azu said:

Then I guess you're able to handle the side effects better than others or just ignore any need to smoke or you're just another case in general. The people at my school don't let themselves be stopped by smoking joints. They would walk miles through the rain to actually smoke one in a figure of speech. My ex boyfriend did drag me through the rain (with me protesting, I just hate rain tbh) to smoke one. I guess this has nothing to do with addiction, but he did encourage me to try smoking so meh.

Clebardman said:


I'm going to be bluntly honest here: they're posers. Yeah, I met some people who also pretended that they couldn't live without it/that it ruined their high school/blabla. They usually don't even smoke that much anyway.

Azu said:
Every heavy smoker I know would tell you, there's no addiction.

Azu said:

You must be hardcore to smoke joints without nicotine then.

Azu said:

In general most people won't be honest about being addicted to anything. Addiction means something has power over you and I doubt that anyone would like admitting having no control about themselves but k.

Nilin said:

Ye so hardcore.
Cherry flavored rolling paper ftw

Clebardman said:


It's the opposite. Being addicted is cool. People will go around spouting shit like "I'm addicted to my smartphone" "LoL is a drug" without knowing what it's about. Physical addiction is a real thing, there's a slight one for nicotine, and none for weed. Then there's stuff like alcohol or heroin/opiates.

There's a difference between a desire and a need. People just pretend their desires are needs to make themselves feel better about the fact that they're not stopping.

Azu said:
Ok. Just to see if I can grasp your point: Do you think people can get addicted to games? The answer on that could actually give the answer as to why we're not on the same page at the moment.

Clebardman said:


Wich kind of games? Video games, soccer, poker?

When money is involved, yeah. Other kind of games? Meh, not really. But I'm not sure about screens/blue light.

Clebardman said:
Every heavy smoker I know would tell you, there's no addiction.

Lum said:
Well that's a load of bull. 90% of smokers are addicted, unless they have only smoked 3 cigarettes.

magikewlgirlz said:
I've smoked for four years, and more or less everyone in my family that's old enough to smoke does (there're probably six ashtrays in my grandmothers house, not even counting the ones on the porch).

Cigarettes are entirely pointless. I started smoking out of a combination of curiosity and the need for something to calm my nerves. They don't do jack shit. But I still smoke them compulsively (every hour and a half or so). No plans on quitting, but it's not something you should start.

Granted, they do feel good at first. The first pack maybe will feel good. The first one is actually really good, I've never done any kind of drugs (cigarettes and alcohol are it for me) but the first one felt amazing. My head became light, every muscle in my body relaxed, and I felt a bit dizzy. That lasted for ten minutes top, and then I started feeling sick. But I wanted to feel that again, so I went for another one a few hours later. It still felt good, but not to the same extent as the first and I still felt sick afterwards, again not the same extent. Repeat for maybe a pack. Now, despite the lack of any kind of high like the first few, I can't go without them.

Obviously as a smoker that comes from a smoking family, I can't hate smokers. Because when I think of cigarettes I think of my family.

Bryance said:

I offer my condolences too. It probably is a hard life if you were dumb enough to get into smoking. A person shouldn't really suffer that long because of a simple initial error and being unable to deal with the initial intense impulses.