Tobacco use declining despite industry interference: WHO

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I'm proud to say I am 3 months smoke free, after 15 years smoking without a break!

There ya go, keep it up! And if no one has said it, I am proud of you.
- I can confirm, no one has said you are proud of them.
I quit in September! Congrats! Quitting smoking was way harder than quitting drinking for me, and I was a daily drunk functional alcoholic for years.
- Wow, qutting drinking and smoking, you must be a strong character. I don't know you but I'm pretty proud of you. Wish you the best!
We're counting on you now
Well done pal! Keep the good work
Good job to all the people quitting!

Think of all that tobacco farmland that could be converted to food crops

You want to convert something to useful land? Get rid of golf courses.
Do we actually need more food crops though?
I thought we already produced enough food to feed the whole planet. Distribution is the real problem.
- Smaller more diverse farms would help, but the grocery stores would have to learn how seasonal, regional crops work. Instead of offering pineapples, kiwis, and strawberries 365 days a year.
I vote just keeping the fields dormant so we can actually do crop rotation and stave off massive crop failures.
- Personally I'd like to see the fields replaced with the forests that were cut down for them in the first place but that's not likely to happen

The industry interference: Here have more of the stinky cancer paper tubes that don't do anything but make you addicted then sooth the addiction.

There is a high from nicotine, it just goes away so quickly as you get addicted.
- It also goes away quickly when not addicted.
  Source: tried nicotine, was disappointed.
That's not the only thing they do. They also reduce your capacity for work... and life. I have a reason to believe that people dying from "overwork" are actually because:
People work (and play) more when they are young and in school etc.
Get used to their ability to work as much and subconsciously set a mental bar.
Get into office space full of secondary smoke / start smoking
Smoke reduces their ability
They don't realise their reduced ability and keep on working as much as previously set bar.
dedz
Just a hypothesis. No scientific backing.
... other than first hand exp with reducing ability to work after long term exposure in a heavily contaminated environment.
- What offices have smoke?
  Overwork is still very common despite less people smoking.
  Also, nicotine is a simulant and really doesn't make you less productive. Just like coffee won't. Actually there's an argument it should help.

Millennials killing the tobacco industry

I quit cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana. Yay mood swings and anxiety! (Don’t worry, I know it’s for the best)

Worst thing about alcohol imo is that I can never do anything really productive. Like a beer or two and instead of idk, reading or making something or programming I'll just be doing nothing. Takes my focus right out
I mean, if you're feeling worse – is it really for the best?
- Voluntary suffering in order to bring about future positive ends is essentially integral to having a good life. That’s like saying to someone who just started exercising and is complaining about being sore, “if you’re feeling worse, is it really for the best?” Yes. It definitively is.
- Cigarettes no problem really, but the other stuff was seriously detrimental to my concentration abilities at work.

Let's gooooo 🔥

Wish so much that I'd never started. This shit is so addictive.

Good. Now it's oil's turn.

Tucker Carlson cancelled by big healthcare before he could get the check from Philip Morris.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-nicotine-frees-your-mind

I thought we were over it. But there are so many school teenagers on the way to school in my area, smoking. The stinky normal kind. They must be really stressed out?

If a kid sees their mom and dad smoking all the time, they'll probably start to believe that it's not as dangerous as other people say. "They seem to be fine, so I should be fine too." I legitimately heard this often while growing up, sadly. If you grow up around a bad smell, you might not think of it as "bad" smell, since you're already used to it.
If someone is already depressed and hates life, they might not care about the harm that they're causing themselves 20 years later. I've known way too many people who didn't believe that they would stay alive until adulhood. Some of these people started these bad habits expecting to not have to stick around long enough to deal with the consequences.
Throw in the chaos of the last handful of years, along with the constantly depleting mental health resources, and I can't say that I'm really all that suprised.
Even today, many countries have certain types of people trying to obliterate what's left of mental health resources. Then they wonder why their kids are struggling with mental health.
I can only imagine what it's going to be like for Gen Alpha when they get older, poor kids.

I don't smoke in any regular capacity. Last time I smoked was new years this year. The time before that was October '22.

On new years eve I drank, and I thought I could keep the alcohol high going if I smoked. Bad idea, the next day was shot too. Completely fucked. Never again.

Every time I smoke I'm reminded why I didn't smoke for >1 year prior.

I've been surprised in recent years how much more smoking has subtly popped back up in media. Most times it's also not in a way that applies to the plot or illuminates anything you didn't already know about a character.

Also in sports, things like Nickelodeon getting so involved with the NFL for kids with cartoon recreations of games, etc. They are propping up a new generation of sports hero role models in people like Joe Burrow. For awhile, he'd be celebrating all their victories with trashy cigar parties in the locker room, as like, a kid in his early 20s who just got slimmed by Nickelodeon a few days before?

It's been pretty odd to see the resurgence in media in the last decade plus.

I wanna see a massive dump of them. All of them. If you gonna smoke smoke weed. Fuck tobacco and anyone who thinks it's cool. They have the freedom to choose for sure, but anyone that chooses that is 100% idiot until proven otherwise.

No ifs, ands, or buts. If you like it, you are part of the problem.

Quitters finally saw the light. People who start smoking in the 2020s are just outright stupid. It's not all over TV anymore, it's not the cool teenage rebellion thing. It's not even hidden knowledge about how bad it is to start, and how hard quitting is. Wtf is making people start now?

Smoking weed will bring a lot of the negative health effects of tobacco smoking. Is it so cool that one may underestimate it? That reminds me of something.
- There's so much garbage in tobacco cigarettes that the comparison is barely worth making.
  Now, yes, burning any plant material will release carcinogens that can increase cancer risk. Incidentally, this includes sitting around a campfire, but most people in developed countries don't do that every day. However, studies on marijuana smoke find that smoking one joint a day for a year gives slightly elevated testicular cancer risk, and inconclusive results for other cancers.
  Possibly, marijuana has a protective effect that tends to cancel out the inherent carcinogens.
- If you're smoking weed like you would smoke tobacco, you've got too much damn money and aren't doing anything in your life anyhow.

Fuck cigarettes. Vaping is the new thing now 😎

Edit: woah, I meant it as a joke. Guess I deserve all the downvotes for not clarifying.

Fuck cigarettes AND fuck vaping. I fucking hate how many people vape at gigs and in line to places. Like fuck off, don't bring me into your bad decisions, keep them to yourself.
- I agree with you that inconsiderate vapers need to fuck off, but when used for its intended purpose, helping adults quit smoking, vaping literally saves lives.
  I tried every other smoking cessation method including prescription medication for 10 out of the 18 years I smoked but it just didn't work for me.
  Then I went from cigarettes to vaping high nicotine to gradually tapering off until I was vaping nicotine free and then not at all. I haven't smoked OR vaped for over 3 years now.
- If only i can say this to people who drive.
- Yeah at school I see people vaping all the time. Just saw somebody on campus the other day take a huge huff of it the other day. Those things are huge. I keep thinking it might even be more dangerous than regular cigarettes probably because of its gargantuan size and the ease to just suck up a cartridge without a lighter.
- Hard metals > tobacco