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Tobacco use declining despite industry interference: WHO (news.un.org)

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[-] buycurious@lemmy.world 83 points 10 months ago

Good

[-] gigachad@feddit.de 72 points 10 months ago

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

[-] tuxtey@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

There ya go, keep it up! And if no one has said it, I am proud of you.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

I can confirm, no one has said you are proud of them.

[-] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 13 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] oce@jlai.lu 7 points 10 months ago

We're counting on you now

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Well done pal! Keep the good work

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[-] MrNesser@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 61 points 10 months ago

You want to convert something to useful land? Get rid of golf courses.

[-] Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

Por que no los dos?

[-] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

And livestock

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

Livestock is more useful than tobacco and golf courses

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[-] Shalakushka@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago

We have way more than enough livestock. Humans should be eating less meat.

[-] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Sorry for not being clear; that was the point I was trying to make.

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

And cemeteries

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[-] cbarrick@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

I vote just keeping the fields dormant so we can actually do crop rotation and stave off massive crop failures.

[-] MrNesser@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] BustinJiber@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 12 points 10 months ago

There is a high from nicotine, it just goes away so quickly as you get addicted.

[-] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago

It also goes away quickly when not addicted.

Source: tried nicotine, was disappointed.

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[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

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[-] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

Millennials killing the tobacco industry

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 28 points 10 months ago

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

[-] HerrBeter@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] BlanK0@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago

Let's gooooo 🔥

[-] rambaroo@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

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

[-] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Good. Now it's oil's turn.

[-] Veneroso@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Vendul@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago

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?

[-] Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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.

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