Rush understood.
Posted on 07/02/2024 10:06:04 AM PDT by Drew68
In 1954, the average cigarette in the United States contained 2.7 milligrams (mg) of nicotine. However, by 1992, that number had dropped to 0.95 mg. This decrease was due to a number of factors, including:
Filter technology: Cigarette manufacturers developed proprietary filter technology that promised to reduce the amount of nicotine and tar in cigarettes.
Tobacco blend: The composition of the tobacco blend was changed.
Cigarette paper: More porous cigarette paper was used.
I don’t know if this Covid development influenced the nicotine craze, but there is medical evidence suggesting that smokers serendipitously avoided getting Covid because the nicotine from their smoking somehow blocked the spike protein. There’s a doctor, Bryan Ardis, who subscribes to this theory and he reports applying a nicotine patch on a daily basis as a prophylactic measure against getting Covid. I suppose the patch would be an alternative to the pouch. I don’t know all the ins and outs of nicotine, but men have smoked tobacco since ancient times. Obviously, it’s the nicotine they’re craving.
A neighbor decided he would quit and did, about 5 years ago no. He now has lung cancer, but his in inoperable for whatever reason.
Not saying this has any relevance with you, because everyone is different.
Now alcohol & Drugs, when I decided to walk away, it was no problem, because I knew I wanted to quit. I never really wanted to quit smoking. To this day I still struggle, but I want to stay quit now. It's easier now though, because I have time under my belt. Therefore, I know that in short time that urge will again pass. If I do it long enough I will eventually pass. 🤣
I've tried nicotine patches. They aggravated my skin tremendously. They caused pain and welts and itched worse than bug bites.
The Zyn pouches don't do this.
I prefer to get my nicotine from a pipeful of burley or a Latakia blend. I don’t smoke it as an image thing. It’s just something I like. If it does give me an image, it would be that of an old coot, but I am okay with that.
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My dad chewed Copenhagen all his life until he had a stroke (not likely caused by the nicotine in my opinion) but his doctor told him to stop anyway and he did. My uncle smoked a pipe and I’m certain he was not in it for the ‘image’ because he smoked heavily and I remember seeing his many empty tobacco cans of Prince Albert. I can remember him digging out the tar at the bottom of the bowl with his jackknife when he no longer could get smoke through his pipe. He wound up with a pre-cancerous lesion on his lower lip in later years. I don’t know if this was from the sun’s rays or his pipe stem. Yes, nicotine is addictive, but what else it does to the body is constantly being debated.
Hard times create nicotine men
Nicotine men create good times
Good times create weed guys
Weed guys create hard times
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I don’t believe there is any correlation between nicotine and THC. Marijuana has only be around a relatively short time. It is in my opinion, however, a gateway drug to other mind altering substances.
Real men terrify them, because they know we don’t buy their crap and won’t defer to their demands just for the infrequent privilege of having tepid sex with them.
We’ve got our own hot babes whose minds are in the right place. Many of them are foreign born.
I smoke a (tobacco) pipe. And here I thought it was my brain that makes me a conservative. Now, I find out that it’s the nicotine.
Exactly.
The article said you don't spit. What do you do with the "juice"? Swallow? Or does it not produce any with your saliva?
By the way Drew68 what do you ride?
I wonder how it compares in price to Skoal Snus?
Can’t believe this is not the “Bee.” What a whiny little fool this writer is.
I see Anna’s problem: her face looks like a boy’s, but she’s bitter that she is not a boy.
You can swallow the juice just fine. It doesn't upset your stomach or make you nauseous like swallowing dip spit does (though when I dipped Copenhagen when I was young, I always swallowed it. My 8th Grade shop teacher always said, "If you're man enough to chew tobacco, you're man enough to swallow it.")
By the way Drew68 what do you ride?
I don't ride anything. That window closed when I got married. Wife said no to motorcycles if I wanted to keep my electric guitars.
"We hate you and we hate everything you enjoy. We hate everything that makes your mind sharp and your body strong.
No working out. No caffeine. No nicotine.
Smoke weed and eat bugs. That's what we want you to do."
Oh dang, my dumb a$$ just realized you're not wearing a motorcycle helmet, you're in a jet aircraft!
Most certainly not me.
I'm not nearly that cool.
Rush understood.
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