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vaping is the new cool thing. I wasn't super socially present through high school, but I know that lots of the kids there do vape in the bathrooms and stuff and it's seen as cool somehow

I just watched Casablanca for the first time a couple of days ago, and as someone that hates smoking, I just don't get how it came to be everywhere back in the day. Ingrid Bergman is probably the only non-smoker in the entire movie! Both her (breast, 69) and Humphrey Bogart (esophageal, 57) died of cancer.
Growing up with two smoking parents that'd both gladly hotbox their kids, my brother and I, when we drove anywhere was just awful. I really don't get how you can do that to other people without feeling ashamed.

You’ve obviously never been a smoker 🚬 sweet sweet nicotine, i miss u so!

Addiction is a helluva drug!

Second line points out addiction, then goes on to ask why? That's a special kind of stupidity on its own.

Tobacco is generally a pretty lame drug, but some forms of it at least smell somewhat good (e.g. waterpipes (though I think a lot of the 'smells good' is additives), or the old-fashioned smoking pipes).

Lol as a non smoker when I take a rip I feel so lightheaded and awesome. No wonder people get addicted

I got hooked at first because as teenagers when we smoked weed we would smoke it cut with nicotine.

I don't smoke myself but you need to know that cigarettes are super-processed crap. They intentionally add more poisonous shit to them. Even I like the smell of loose leaf tobacco smoked in a pipe, or in a quality cigar. The reason people first started smoking tobacco is because it smells good. But you're right that's not cigarettes.

Picking up girls and making friends mostly.

The rest is to get away from dancing/ loud music/ heat.

My ideal place to go out would be a location with no dancefloor just a bar and a smoking area where you can't smoke. Unfortunately the vibe of the smoking area just hits differently and no one can explain it. It cannot be replicated. It's magic in a bottle.

I think Nicotine has a stimulant effect, so there is that. Other than that, yea, the marketing devils get to them.

There’s something pleasurable about exhaling mist out of your mouth.

plus potential undiagnosed adhd self med maybe? I always could solve any problem if I only had a smoke to think. It’s like some kind of unlocking full potential

It’s been 10 years since my last and I still miss that full potential feeling. I feel like I live with a constant fog on my mind without it

It’s very hard to part ways with the clarity that nicotine gives me. As if teleported to some dimension where everything is easy suddenly and very clear. Time slows down

Fuck maybe it’s worth going back just for that clarity. I never really recovered since quitting

I thought I could overcome it with sheer force of will and my brain will somehow get used to it and work fine without nicotine but that never happened

I miss that kind of focus