I don’t smoke but isn’t flavored vape essentially the same and that is legal?
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What the fuck?
There are flavoured cigars?
I used to smoke flavored cigarettes. When they were made illegal where I live they were modified and re-released as flavored cigarillos(mini cigars).
They were similar, but different enough that I no longer enjoyed smoking them.
Blunt wraps are what these are mainly targeting I imagine (Backwoods, Swisher Sweets, White Owls)... BUT Acid cigars are pretty nice and the brand I always point out. They used to advertise in cigar magazines back when I would read them and would feature interesting rolling methods that leaned in to the name. (Cheaper end as far as cigars go)
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Alcohol causes more problems in society than tobacco.
This is true
Okay, hear me out here. We should ban smoking meat next. Just the stuff that has been marinated or seasoned. You know, for the kids.
It's like people in this thread don't realize how massively addictive nicotine is? I see addicts all the time try to excuse their addictions with every excuse in the book. I was addicted once. It took every part of my soul to quit that shit. nicotine is a mistake many make and don't come back from and pretend it their choice shit should be band. Just due to it's addictive nature. Banned for the same reason lotterys are generat only owned by the state. Shits is a a great investment. People will kill themselves or others to give you money
Yeah, so why would they ban flavors and not nicotine? It seems that would be the play if they wanted to stop smoking (and start some riots).
They don't ban it because most of Congress chews smokes or takes money
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It's like people in this thread don't realize how massively addictive caffeine is? I see addicts all the time try to excuse their addictions with every excuse in the book. I was addicted once. It took every part of my soul to quit that shit. caffeine is a mistake many make and don't come back from and pretend it their choice shit should be band. Just did to it's addictive nature. Banned for the same reason lotterys are generat only owned by the state. Shits is a a great investment. People will kill themselves or others to give you money
(edit /s proud nicotine addict here)
Caffine is not nearly as addictive as nicotine. And to conflate the too is a fat ass lie. I've quit both caffeine was three days of headaches at most. Quiting nicotine was my skin crawling and wanting to yank out my teeth for months. It's been more then two years and I still crave it. They are not the same you are exactly the type of nicotine addict I talk about. They are absolutely not the same
I think people know it's addictive and generally bad, they just also know that prohibition usually doesn't work.