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Tobacco thread
amok:
On the topic of warning labels, I was always tickled by how over here it's always SMOKING KILLS while when I was in Germany, the labels read Smoking Can Kill (in German obviously, smartasses). I had this funny mental image of 999 out of 1000 packs being perfectly ok for you, but then you get the unlucky pack and drop dead. Hey pal, we warned you, those things can kill.
beat mouse:
My roommate stole my mini-hookah when he moved out, but we used to go through a nice variety of flavoured shisha from the head shop across the alley way (yes i lived in one of those awesome neighbourhoods.) I used to smoke a pack and a half to two packs a day, but after moving back home for a few months i've cut down to half a pack a day, which is somewhere i haven't been down to in probably 2-3 years. i generally smoke canadian classics, because they're a happy medium of strongish and cheapish and readily available. if i venture into american brands, of the ones I can even find here, I usually pick up camel lights, or dunhill reserves, though ultimately theyre just way too expensive and harsh to smoke as constantly as i am accustomed to smoking.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Darkbluerabbit on 27 Dec 2007, 13:33 ---I tried a cigar once. It made my mouth and throat feel like they were coated in rubbery ash.
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Trick: swish with water and spit, and try not to swallow at all when you're smoking. If you feel the urge to swallow, do a water swish instead. Helps get that shit out of your mouth and possibly cuts down on cancer risk (I am by no means a credible source of information on this, though, so take that medical theory with a grain of salt).
hellion:
They all make you dead.
Right now I smoke what ever is cheap.
onewheelwizzard:
Actually I think the most recent high-profile study on marijuana use suggested that smoking weed might even mitigate the cancer risk of tobacco, and at the very least doesn't make it any worse, so the I-smoked-weed-first/like-it-more people here are probably the best off. It might just be some weird manipulation of the statistics that led to that conclusion, but who knows?
I think they ended up figuring that since there are known carcinogens in weed smoke, but even regular heavy smokers (22,000+ lifetime joints, which is an absolute fuckton of smoking if you think about it) show no increased risk for lung cancer overall, there must be something about weed that mitigates cancer risk. If I remember correctly the hypothesis was that the THC was killing the older or malfunctioning lung cells before they could become cancerous.
Come to think of it, Google showed me a link ... http://www.canorml.org/healthfacts/tashkinlungcancer.html has the full scoop. So yeah ... not all smoking gives you cancer.
I must admit to being a pretty consistent stoner, though, and the fact is that I have a little bit of a smoker's cough. You're not inhaling rainbows or anything.
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