Missed chance to swap to the much more badass golden eagle. Or be honest about the state of American democracy and choose the dodo..

Looks more like tighty whities lol

Nah, I like to close my eyes at the penultimate second of any video I would otherwise have watched to the end. Just to be difficult.

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If I was to say that I'm the emperor because some underpaid and overworked employee lobbed a foam claymore at me, they'd put me away!

Let's compromise and agree that they BOTH stink right now 😁

Also, this continues to be accurate:

If we were serious about getting people to quit, it would be better to force producers to slowly decrease the nicotine content, and the other addictive additives used in cigarettes

Or better yet: do both. We can walk and chew nicotine gum at the same time, you know 😉

Yup! That's in fact what I myself don't do.

I cross posted this post from another to MildlyInfuriating because it's the kind of content this community is for. Not because I myself was soliciting advice.

They absolutely harm the environment more than help

I highly doubt it, but go ahead and prove your claim.

Again smokers know the risk when they started smoking.

Far from all. That's a very privileged assumption. Countries in the global south don't generally get all the public health information we take for granted, and there's significant correlation between countries with the most new smokers and countries with the least successful public health authorities.

That goes for impoverished and otherwise dysfunctional parts of the global North too, btw, in case you don't think you'd be killing a lot of West Virginians who don't deserve it.

They don't get to mitigate that risk by poisoning the environment with their trapped tar filters that they flick everywhere with out a care for themselves or nonsmokers or the environment.

Holy stereotype bigotry, Batman!

Speaking as an ex-smoker who didn't match the caricature you have in your head at all, I'm glad that you didn't get to decide anything. Otherwise, I might not have survived long enough to quit five years ago.

You're wrong on this one

That's a negative. People don't deserve to be victims of social murder just because they made the mistake of developing a bad habit and you have prejudices against everyone who shares that habit.

Another boxing day update:

any real harm reduction beyond trapping a little bit of tar

Yeah, just reducing the amount of TAR in your lungs!

Because that's not at all harmful, nuh-uh! It's not like emphysema or lung cancer ever harmed anyone! 🤦

They seem to do more harm than good

Objectively false to a ridiculous degree.

From my pov, keeping them around is needlessly cruel and results in no benefit whatsoever

Except for the aforementioned decrease in emphysema and lung cancer, sure 🙄

How the fuck is that only a yellow?

Any smoker already knows they're killing themselves

Which is one of many reasons why the vast majority of smokers are trying to quit. I've never known anyone who's become addicted to nicotine who DIDN'T eventually want to stop.

Why not get rid of the filter?

Because it would increase the harm to both smokers and victims of passive tobacco inhalation immensely, which would in turn increase the already outsized strain on healthcare systems around the world, leading to a spiral of compounded misery throughout society.

It would be needlessly cruel while resulting in little to no benefit.

A better solution would be to ban the hundreds of different additives in cigarettes that make them more toxic and addictive than the tobacco itself already is.

That and roll back the bans of flavored e-juice while actively promoting the most effective smoking cessation method, adult vaping.

Refillable ones only, of course. Disposable vapes are an environmental scourge and also generally much less effective than the good ones.

Challenge not accepted! 💪

Ah ok, cool 🙂

That's where i cross posted from 😄

Yeah, let's make the number one lifestyle cause of death, a highly addictive group of substances, even more deadly! That'll show those no-good addicts!

Just like any other addiction, you don't cure tobacco smoking (or lessen the burden on society at large) by killing people faster.

Addiction treatment and other harm reduction, on the other hand..

I'm thinking horribly mangled German bank executive with a lisp 🤷