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At least smoking a cigarette looks kind of cool , this is just lame.


16 posted on 07/17/2025 6:32:41 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: escapefromboston

And Tucker’s trying to say that nicotine pouches are more masculine than good old fashioned smokes. Yeah, right.


21 posted on 07/17/2025 6:39:05 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: escapefromboston

At least smoking a cigarette looks kind of cool


Seriously?


48 posted on 07/17/2025 8:53:28 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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At least smoking a cigarette looks kind of cool, this is just lame.

As a non-smoker who has never smoked a cigarette, I will come to your dubious defense of smoking.

If there ever were any positives to smoking, it was the social interaction that surrounded smokers.

A big component of my education during my college years was exploring dive bars.

I would go to the bars for lunch where the food was often good and cheap.

I would go around “cocktail” hour although no one was drinking cocktails as it was mostly PBR on tap.

Well over half the bars were filled with smokers but there was friendly atmosphere of social interaction.

Not all dive bars were like that as you knew to avoid those places where folk went to brawl and it was just a routine night to have a fight or two.

But there were better conversations and “arguments” at those bars than can be had on an internet forum such as this one.

Those bars are mostly gone.

What remains is truly sad.

A place with video poker or some game that fuels the addiction of staring at a screen while continuing to feed the machine with filthy lucre.

Without smoking folk will probably live longer but will they live better?

I never smoked as it is terrible habit.

But I never judged smokers either.

We all have a way of finding our own terrible habit.


59 posted on 07/18/2025 7:09:15 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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