• SpicyPeaSoup@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I want people to keep smoking because too many old people put a significant strain on the economy.

    /s in case anyone needs it

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      Might actually be the case, some studies have suggested that smokers are much less expensive to society than nonsmokers because they die like 20 years younger

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        Well those people are idiots with no idea about the immense expense of smoking-related diseases much more than making up for any savings society might get from decreased longevity.

        It’s not about society saving money, it’s about the greed of big tobacco and the politicians they own.

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              I’m saying it’s not like some weird esoteric thing that we don’t see anywhere else in the medical industry. Heart disease from smoking isn’t more expensive to treat than heart disease without smoking.

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                Smoking is the number one cause of preventable death bar none, and it causes a shitload of nonfatal diseases and complications too, all in all making it EXTREMELY expensive for any society to deal with on a large scale.

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                  The dude above seems to think that Nicotine has no downsides and it’s just tobacco that causes harm. He is stupid, don’t spend long talking with him.

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            I mean, kind of? Nicotine is literally a natural pesticide, it’s actually quite destructive towards everything it touches. Smoking causes dental issues, which cause far more disease than you’d expect. Also being unable to run up a flight of stairs without dying a little bit probably makes it worse.

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              Nicotine is literally a natural pesticide, it’s actually quite destructive towards everything it touches

              That is absolutely not true lol

              It’s not even harmful at the levels present in cigarettes.

              It’s all the OTHER stuff in cigarettes that kills you.

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                If this were the case, vaping nicotine would have pretty much no downsides. Look man I smoke way too much, but saying nicotine isn’t inherently problematic and unhealthy is stupid and it’s cope. Nicotine itself is considered toxic, if it wasn’t it would be prescribed off label all the time and we wouldn’t have the need for things like Effexor that are pretty much just long lasting and non toxic nicotine.

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                  If this were the case, vaping nicotine would have pretty much no downsides.

                  Ooooh you’re so close

                  I’ll be back in a day or so to give you the facts.