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Struggling once again to quit smoking (hopefully for good this time) I've found myself switching over to Zyn tobacco-free nicotine pouches. I was totally unaware that these are considered by the left to be a gateway drug to right-wing bro culture.

Anyhow, many links at the source.


1 posted on 07/02/2024 10:06:04 AM PDT by Drew68
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“I’ll stick to crack thank you very much.” - Hunter Biden


2 posted on 07/02/2024 10:08:29 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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No pics of the Z pouch, after that lengthy article?


3 posted on 07/02/2024 10:08:50 AM PDT by lee martell
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Democrat scum hate men and anything they normally do.


5 posted on 07/02/2024 10:10:32 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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Sounds like the left is now associating "toxic masculinity" with substance addiction. They want to portray masculinity and conservatism as come kind of unnatural thing.

I can assure you, the only "substance" this conservative is addicted to is Mrs. Tell.

6 posted on 07/02/2024 10:11:58 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Whatever you say, Karen - er Anna.


8 posted on 07/02/2024 10:13:02 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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TRANSLATION: “We hate you.”


11 posted on 07/02/2024 10:14:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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So many words about so little.


13 posted on 07/02/2024 10:15:33 AM PDT by 03A3 (If we can defund the police, we sure as hell can defund the FBI)
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no spitting?

spitting is the best part

/spit


14 posted on 07/02/2024 10:15:37 AM PDT by joshua c
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“When it comes to the impact of male insecurity on elections, it’s unhelpful to blame individual men, Knowles said. “Men are being manipulated politically.”

It is very comforting to know that our betters in the Ruling Class understand our thinking so much better than we do.

And that they are so generous as to admit that individual men, being the pathetic, tangled-up, insecure id’s that we are, are not actually to blame. Of course it’s Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson’s fault.

And I wager they feel better knowing just why we dislike them so much.


18 posted on 07/02/2024 10:18:26 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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Never heard of it.


19 posted on 07/02/2024 10:19:30 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Never heard of it.


20 posted on 07/02/2024 10:19:57 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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yes, do tell us all about masculinity and bro culture...Anna North.


21 posted on 07/02/2024 10:20:42 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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Nicotine is like any other potentially addictive drug. Some folks used it for a while and just decide to quit while others are captured for years. The problem is you don’t know which category you are in until you try it. For example:
Karen Ann Quinlan
“When she was 21, Quinlan became unconscious after she consumed Valium along with alcohol while on a crash diet and lapsed into a coma”
The parents believed that her still being connected constituted extraordinary means of prolonging her life.
Eventually a court ruled that the ventilator could be withdrawn. However, she continued to breathe on her own. She survived another nine years in a persistent vegetative state.”
Any time a person decides to try a possibly addictive drug for the first time the outcome is never known for sure.


23 posted on 07/02/2024 10:21:27 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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No one remembers when Rush recommended nicotine?


24 posted on 07/02/2024 10:22:03 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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Nicotine is an interesting drug and someday science may find positive uses for it.

Smokers use cigarettes in many ways and seemingly many of those ways contradict each other, something very mild and subtle is happening but we don’t know what yet.


25 posted on 07/02/2024 10:22:03 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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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.


27 posted on 07/02/2024 10:23:38 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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Wouldn’t nicotine gum be like the non-tobacco pouches? I get this tight feeling at the back of my throat and nausea. When I tried cigarettes way back, same thing. No thanks.


30 posted on 07/02/2024 10:27:36 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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Yada yada yada. Pseudoscience, opinion, conjecture, outright lies. Another day in the media.


33 posted on 07/02/2024 10:30:37 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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I’ll stick with the original masculine drug - bourbon 😛


34 posted on 07/02/2024 10:31:56 AM PDT by Skywise
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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.


42 posted on 07/02/2024 10:49:05 AM PDT by iontheball
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