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Smoking Is a Dying Habit. Not in Germany. (www.wsj.com)

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Health experts think low tobacco prices, a general tolerance of smoking and changes brought by the pandemic may explain the uptick in cigarette use.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Think about it, smoking is as green as it gets. Think of how much waste every human makes every year and how many animals have to die just to sustain the average human for a year. Think of how much plastic waste the average human makes. If every human lived 20 fewer years, that's mountains of garbage and billions of creatures saved from extinction.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now that's a hot take

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Only if you're cremated.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, if I'm speeding with my car in a school zone...?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You deserve a discount on your taxes, yes.

[–] jormaig 1 points 1 year ago

But then we have to pay for lung cancer treatments and these don't go cheap...