Why Is Smoking Back In Style? 

Cigarette smoking has never left..

To be fair Brett did make a great point. It does look pretty fly as H lol.

not in Europe or Asia, obviously they continued to smoke. But in America gen x stopped for the most part, and barely any millennials ever picked up the habit. Gen z is apparently picking up the habit though.

due to how popular vaping and weed smoking is, I was expecting it

Honestly, I thought it would be cigars not cigarettes that would be popular

Based. Hope she's still doing well.

This sounds so made up lmaooooo

Bet she still eats processed crap and a shit ton of sugar

@@FirstNameLastName-jg1es Hindsight, you're probably right. Unless the other person was clearly joking.

Cringe

rip. i hope ur mom is ok. at least ur dad had a happy life i guess.

He had a happier life than he would have if he didn't smoke.

@@halfmoon106 but he did. and obviously he enjoyed it.

Would you say male or female were majority of buyers?

@@gbanger6317 Among older customers, slightly more men bought them, but among younger customers, it seemed like slightly more women. It wasn't an extreme difference or anything, but a shocking number of the younger women buying cigarettes were wearing their scrubs for their healthcare jobs or schooling. Anytime anyone came in wearing scrubs, 99.9% of the time, they were there for cigarettes.

When i worked at a gas station and people came in and bought multiple packs, i would say i used to smoke 2 packs a day i miss it, and majority would say there grabbing a pack for there laddy or there mom/dad too. As some one who grew up in a trappy area and i can say the majority of people smoke a pack or less a day. But the rural areas where i worked as a laborer-old majority white people are the ones that smoke 2+ packs a day ​i thought it was crazzy and i was smoking 30-40 newport menthol 100s a day. @gbanger6317

I would advise against drinking as well. It's not so fun when you find yourself unable to go longer than a workday without it.

All this!

@@armouredjester1622 Meh..I drink socially on the weekends and no need to drink over the week. I guess not everyone goes through that dilemma.

@@vaderladylevery weekend?

@@TheKatarinaGiselle I correct myself, if I am socializing that weekend.

cool good for you

great job

Congratulations, I quit 11 years ago myself and haven't looked back

Yay good for you😊

Congrats! I just quit I smoked for more than half my life. (17 years) I started when I was 12 and I'm 29. And I just quit, thanks to the chantix. If it wasn't for that I wouldn't have been able to do it. I smoked a pack a day too. The patches didn't work for me. Or the gum or the lozenges.. but the chantix did cuz I was able to ween myself off

I’m from Italy too and where I live is the same

Belgium here, same thing

I am from germany and a lot of people smoke here too, it´s not so extreme like in italy but a lot of young people start smoking at the age of 15/16 when they start partying and do "party-rauchen" and then they get addicted and vapes are sadly very common.

Yall should come to Sweden

Nobody smokes 1 pack or more a day when they’re 25 lmao

Still is

uhruh

Nobody can roast you quite like Mum (or Dad) 🙃

While her mom lives off her daughter 😂😂😂😂😂😂

​@melissarose597 what dad :(

​@@VividGaming110does she? I could be wrong but last I heard she was gonna focus on the other kids

Just wondering, does Ortega bring her own ashtrays?? Most restaurants and bars out West don't allow smoking, hence they don't have ashtrays.

So being Grunge is cool today? I was grunge in middle school back in the early nineties and it was definitely cool then. What are you guys listening to now?

@@reshpeckhistory repeats, what one generation left, the next will recover, so on and so forth.

Vaping is for Soyboys smoking a big thick Cigar is Alpha Chad

Gen Z = Zoomers, get it right.

At least if we vape it's much less harmful than tobacco

yea my dads from poland and one thing they’ll do there is smoke 😭

imagine how trendy is in my country which is in very east of europe (Georgia) and I am smoking

Literally

Northern European countries have definitely tried to make smoking less trendy and make it seen as 'dirty', but sadly in the rest of Europe, it is so normalised that many individuals don't even consider whether their smoke is going to bother people around them.

the vaping trend of the late 2010’s has progressed into the cigarette smoking trend on the early 2020’s

We should go vintage, wear suits and ties

I'm the oldest Z I go vintage when I'm off of work. My daily dress is dress shirt either white or kaki, a wool vest if cold a wool jacket, tie or no tie at times, a flatcap, jodhpur pants with suspenders and good leather boots. I stand out like a sore thumb wherever I go, though it sucks when people tell me why I'm cosplaying like Pinky blinders and I have to tell them I dressed like this before hand.

@@JP-se5kf yes, I love vintage clothing!

@@balasaashti3146 love it, I wish it was more normalized and not mistaken for dress up or cos play and just accepted as clothes

Like the amish?

Also danish - I love to add the fact that smoking in Denmark is so common, my university exams always had a statement at the beginning: "No smoke breaks during the exam"

Dang, really? That's super disturbing. Especially since that's a huge turnoff for a lot of people.

@@lawsattitude1999 Well such a turnoff does not really exist here from what I know. If its not smoking cigarettes, nicotine packets are also fairly popular. Like, Im a university student ... for biology. And I know several classmates that smoke even xD

@@kinesiskebarn9111 Yeeeesh. Smoking has thankfully gone down in my country. Although, given what happened with COVID it wouldn't surprise me if it rose again either. It wasn't super common in Uni tho.

Well they don't care. I've been in a relationship with 3 smokers and they all kept their habit@@lawsattitude1999

Not only depression but the wanting validation. Media and big coorporations know about it and want to make you sick all the time, eat all the time and do all the bad habits all the time so these companies gain money and you go into debt

Yep.

dry your eyes

Hell 😯 is the outcome 😧

⁠@@Christopher-qq4dlI wouldn’t say I disagree, but I don’t think it would inherently send someone to hell for smoking. I mean if logically anything bad we have put into our bodies from some medicines to drinking cokes and eating a burger all of which are technically speaking are bad for you. But in my opinion I don’t think God would send you to hell for it, but. I could be wrong. As a example Brett brought up the study of how any alcohol consumed is bad for you. Yet Jesus did drink wine multiple times throughout the Bible and we know he was perfect. Granted the wine they drank back then could’ve been for a variety of reasons. And I do know our body is a temple to serve the Lord. My thing is I don’t think God would send us to hell over it but again I’m open to be proven wrong if you do have some verses that come to mind to counter my opinion. And don’t think I am taking a jab at you or trying to start a arguement I’m simply opening the door to a discussion I’m more than happy to be wrong in.

I think smoking room in hospital is necessary. Despite it not being healthy, at least there is a designated place for it. There are o2 panels everywhere so if someone sneaks in cigarettes and being cheeky by smoking inside, it might cause fire. Plus what if the smoke was inhaled by asthmatic ppl? At least that smoking area will make those unhealthy smoke to remain in 1 area ykyk.

My high school had a smoking lounge for the students. All you needed was a letter of permission signed by your parents.

I think almost every adult I knew as a kid smoked, but at some point they were also all trying to quit. I feel like my parents' generation became that generation of staunch anti smokers who were more anti-smoking than those that never smoke in the first place. 😆 Until recently I thought hardly anyone smoked any more, but now I'm coming across lots of smokers again, including our new neighbours.

I remember walking around our mall and smoking. All the trash cans had ash trays!

​@@theminiaturesmallholding9479it js hard to find too many people that smoke anymore in US. I don't go to Europe but I do go to India and it's the same way, smoking has been dismantled by significant margin.

Quitting smoking is easy, I’ve done it a thousand times - Mark Twain

@@apersonontheinternet8006 If quitting was so easy, why did he have to quit 1,000 times? Doesnt sound like he really quit, to me.

Well how many boomers and GenX started smoking because it was "the thing to do"?

They don’t. Brett is making up controversy to get mad at young adults. They all vape… it’s the pandemic and drinking that for the older generations to start smoking again.

I'm an ex smoker of 15 years on and off and I found weed far more addictive and harder to stop.

Same. I found myself at 23 smoking like 20 cigs a day, so I had to do something for my health. I am right now 8 days free from nicotine and I hope I can stay free forever. Honestly if I could smoke only 4-5 cigs a day I wouldn't even quit at this age, but I just can't "smoke a little" so my options are either smoke (a lot) or just quit and never smoke again.

You missed out on the 90s. I'm so sorry

They need less stress as they use it as a anti-stressor. They should probably give help to teenagers and people like that instead of berating and not helping. They are not really geared towards children but teenagers over 18.

I feel the opposite tbh. Im 17 and idk many people my age that vape but as soon as I enter the school bathroom theres always a freshman or sophomre in their vaping and showing it off thinking that its cool. Never once seen anyone older than a sophomore vape at my school atleast and its prolly bcz most people my age didnt have access to vapes pre-covid so they never started it at that age. But with the transition from middle to high school and those kids thinking they are "growing up" they start vaping bcz its a lot more accessible to them then it was to us.

It must be tough to say that Nature's nicotine is SO bad for Gen Z, while California is pushing Chynah made vape juice with nicotine + chemicals for flavours + metals as GOOD for us. Add that many of Gen Z's parents are addicted to and saying weed RESIN is healthy to inhale! It's all a load of manure. The Greatest Generation won a world war on cigarettes, coffee, tinned and powdered food, and Scotch.

I mean I’m 21 and I think smoking is literally gross. Im still act disgusted and hold my breath if I ever walk through someone’s cigarette or vape smoke 😵‍💫🤢

Homeless communities are soooo cute! The way they share needles with each other is so adorable! We should all strive to be more like them. 😍

Have you ever smoked? As a person with social anxiety, sharing a smoke with someone actually was a great way to meet people and get along with them. Lots of things are addictions, but not every vice is equally bad.

im turn 27 years old and i can't figure out if i am a millennial or im gen z. does anyone know? im sure as hell don't.

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​@@devinglass9967yes me too, is either smoking and feel like I'm socializing or pretend to be on my phone

I smoked for years, to cope with stress at work. It’s a really bad reason though, thankfully I beat that nasty addiction

I'm a millennial and I survived the era when smoking was allowed indoors. Vaping is snobby but id take that above cigarettes any day

One of the reasons America even exist is because of tobacco. Without it, we would still be ruled by Britain. Thank you french people for buying all that tobacco to fund our revolution 🎉

I think you can make the same argument about alcohol, most people don't think it tastes very good, and its not good for you. But people still do it. Cigarettes and nicotine in general is just a different version of the same phenomenon. Some people like the taste, but the buzz and head high you get from it is something you can't get anywhere else.

@@benwilson7869 not to mention how good nicotine is for the brain.

Most of them are sober because they don't leave their houses. None of them built relationships to use drink, drugs, and smoking because they're holed up at home on their phones or xbox/playstation. It's depressing as hell. I was out every night when i was a teenager.

😂😂

​@tropicalpalmtree as someone who just graduated hs... this is completely false. Our generation is so beyond damaged from vapes... I couldnt name 10 or 15 kids in my 130+ graduating class that did not do drugs & drink. I personally have never and will never, but when we hear stories of 5th and 6th graders vaping... it tells a much larger story. Gen Z is far worse than people outside of it realize. Its a serious problem that I wish got more light. And as for being sober, this generation definitely parties a lot 😂

@colegifford7123 i know its not real. Im just referencing a video that brett put out earlier. Idk if it included gen z or what the exact details it was it has been a while but the topic was that our generation is " the most sober generation" and i was pretty much waiting for a video like this

@@crownember560 👍

cool

No one I know who smokes has lung cancer, throat cancer. But I can tell you a lot of side effects of smoking that are really gross and will effect you the rest of your life.

@@windyhawthorn7387 "No one I know who smokes has lung cancer, throat cancer" yet

​​@@windyhawthorn7387all my grandparents used to be heavy smokers, they all died in their sixties from lung cancer. Where I live thats 12-16 years below life expentancy. Ignoring all the other health complications they had, lung cancer in itself is one of the worst ways to go. I only remember 2 of my grandparents, both of them I visited in hospital.

Nicotine feels good and the act of smoking is calming

Not to mention it isn't even pleasant. It smells horrible and burns your throat, all for a buzz that you can get the same effect by simply having a coffee, which actually tastes nice and isn't a health risk. Boggles my mind.

Smoking cigs is the best and lung cancer from cigs isnt as common as you may think. Cigs smell amazing, they calm you down and help you focus, and you get more breaks at work. Cigs are your only friend in those lonely nights

@Cannibalizee “Smoking cigs is the best and lung cancer from cigs isnt as common as you may think. Cigs smell amazing, they calm you down and help you focus, and you get more breaks at work. Cigs are your only friend in those lonely nights” -Something a smoker said with lung cancer

​@Angiebobandi so does meditation and that has a 0% chance of literally fucking killing you and the people around you

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Came to the comments just for this

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At that age I went to the parties to cook for everyone. I wasn't into drinking but all my friends were. After people got used to me, some would bring food to me with their beer it worked out really well.

Which is ironic because the portrayer of said character was a notorious chain-smoker. She still might be.

I was in the Marines and smoking was the only way to get a break.

Omg I was just about to comment that lol

The worst reason to do anything is to fit in.

i said in another comment how i think most of the young people doing it now are only doing it because they want that "vintage" look

Never fucking do it! Been smoking 14yrs, I can make myself fast for two weeks straight, run till my feet bleed, I can be extremely disciplined, but smoking is easily the hardest shit to quit. My brother could quit every hard drug including heroine, couldn't quit smoking. It's no joke and it's a slow and miserable death that you can feel.

I never took to vaping. Smoking is much more pleasurable. I'd be delighted if vaping disappeared and everyone just started smoking again, like normal people.

How do you fucking live

@@magnificenthonky😂 like normal people

And if you really wanted to vape moreso as muscle memory and that muscle memory helps you calm down, their are nicotine/harmful chemical free vapes that are water or other helpful things.

I don't have kids but I would absolutely do the same. My mum was also the one that put me off it for life when I was still a kid, and I can be thankful that I never developed the inclination to start myself. Stay strong 👍

Gay

​@@iknowallthesadsongs2115 so you are

how do you "teach" him not to smoke? Sounds like you are just teaching him how smoking works, if he takes it up, that's on him. My dad tried that, tried to scare me, all to no avail.... I was going to become a smoker no matter what he said or didn't say....

​@@derekwoodford9955get help. You will die

The prices aren't high to deter you from smoking, the prices are high for the government to yoink more money from you. A politician doesn't do stuff because it benefits the people but because it benefits themselves, benefiting the people is just a happy little accudent

I don’t know man I’ve been vaping for 6 years and i still prefer the vape over the cigs, i think it depends on what you started with for what you get hooked on.

Same here. Stopped smoking because i wanted to be free again. I felt chained. Cigarettes dictated my life, so i had to stop this.

Great job brother, off for a year! 👍

I quit smoking like 4 months ago because i couldnt be fucked with being emotionally dependend on wether i could smoke or not anymore best decision of my life everytime i have cravings i either take a 3km walk or go to the gym i gained 10kg of weight in 2 months of muscle

I successfully used vaping to quit so have quit a few of my friends it a healthier option as far as your lungs go but if you vape correctly you can use it to quit the problem is that as with anything it become “cool” and so instead of smoking stolen cigarettes like I used to in junior high kids were bumming vapes off family who had them to quit and started doing that it’s a common thing to happen just like kids getting into their family members liquor cabinets

same boat here i'm 2 weeks away from the 5 year mark. 10k+ saved, taxes have gone up some too.

Quit three years ago this October. 30 year habit.

Congrats on quitting! I wish my dad would be able to quit but I'm very worried he'll die if he tried again

A week and a half away from my 5 year mark. Felt so much better after the initial wave of hating quitting I’ll never go back.

You guys use the patches?

I smoked heavily from the age of 16 to 31 and I finally quit just a few months ago. I was scared to quit for a long time because how of how hard everyone said it was. I was recommended the book "Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking" and I have to say that changed my life. It's not full of scare tactics or saying how bad we all know smoking is, but instead unveils how the smoker's mindset is just brainwashing. In it he even tell the reader to keep smoking while they read. I've completely flipped my view on smoking and I don't even have the urge to smoke anymore. If you want to quit, I HIGHLY recommend that book.

Ill never smoke my mom and dad did finally quit 5 months ago my brither smokes and still does

So I can light up that sweet Marlboro red for the first time again

I know it's weird, but when people would ask me how long I had been smoking; I'd reply: Since October 20th of 1980, at 4:20 PM (this was BEFORE 4:20 was a "thing") I was sitting at the airport waiting for my flight to Navy Bootcamp!

25 years of a pack a day, few years older than yourself, but now 4 months smoke free thanks to vapeing. And now feeling 100 times better, it's not easy but give a vape an attempt, it's never too late.

It only calms you down until you're out of cigarettes and suddenly realize you're addicted because if you don't get some nicotine RIGHT FUCKING NOW you will have a panic attack. Oh and coughing black shit out of your lungs in your early twenties isn't exactly calming either. Quitting was hell and I still want one every time I smell someone else with a cigarette 😕

I used to smoke. People have it all backwards. People get anxiety because theyre craving a smoke. Once they smoke one they go back to normal

It only calms you down for about 2 hours then the anxiety spikes high. "I'm gonna die if I don't get a cigarette" - Brad from Sublime song called Jailhouse.

Im 25 never smooed never will my brother does though 😂

right

Oooof yeah, MRSA still being a killer is a nasty jolt of reality - I even saw a poster about it when I was staying a few nights in hospital back in May. People make a huge fuss about doctors, nurses and equipment technicians in hospitals - but without the janitors keeping it all clean you are just as likely to end up coming out with something you didn't have going in.

Sorry about your mom. I started when I was 14 and quit when I turned 21. As soon as I hit 18 I was smoking 2 packs a day. Cigarettes are awful and it's one of those things that you're better off never trying it.

My mom was addicting to smoking to, it ruined her. She wanted to become a full nurse but smoking ruined that to. She got into rehab though in another part of the world and is currently working to get money to come back to where I am.

@Ntmoffi I hear you. I started at 10 1/2. I quit at 18 & took it back up several times. Her addiction was so strong that even when her liver was failing, she insisted on smoking. She accidentally set her shirt on fire because part of liver failure is cognitive problems. We refused her cigarettes anymore. She was in rehabilitation to strengthen her to come home. Unfortunately, it was a place that she worked. They bought her cigarettes & ignored that she needed to go to the hospital.

Smoking vs h3ntai/p*rn. Which is worse?

Yeah, not so much recently I'm afraid. First, employers know that hiring a smoker means there's an additional 30-60 minutes/day they won't be performing, and probably an equal amount of time they will be niccing and less focused. Second, no smoker was ever turned off by the lack of smoke on the breath of a business contact, but vice versa, not so much. It's no fun sitting in a meeting next to a guy who had to go out and relieve himself with a hot-burner right before the meeting. And I'm a former smoker of about 25 years.

That's why you don't let go of your lighter. Hold the flame to the party in need of a light. It makes you look like a gentleman, gives the appearance of friendliness, service and humility, and always ensures that you keep your lighter. Also, I have a ton of cheap lighters. Occasionally, I'll give one to someone who has no lighter. Back when a pack of cigarettes reliably came with matchbooks, I'd pass those along to my lightless brethren, as well.

My bad dawg I'll have to get you another one

@@magnificenthonky that's brilliant, totally gonna do it now

real

35 years ago, when I used to smoke, I never gave anybody my lighter I would light up, and if somebody wanted a light, I would give them my cigarette, and they would light it off of my cigarette.

i know an old army vet that smokes so many people have tried to get him to vape because it’s “healthier” he says “no that stuff has glass in it it’s not healthier” i have no idea if that’s true or not but he’s a very honest to God man so i always take his word for it

Alot of medical people I know tell thier patients to smoke cigarettes if they are known to vape.

​@idioticbagel2833 that man is no liar, that info is a few years old but yes at one point there was glass in one of the brands and it got taken off the shelves

Propylene Glycol, vegetable glycerin, nicotine, and the same artificial flavors they use to make candy. It's listed on the bottle. No glass, not nearly as many toxins as are in cigs. Switched from Marlboros to vaping years ago and I feel much better.

@@Psalm23_4 Thank you for this. Most people read or hear stories from the same outlets lying to you about everything else.

I promise you can do it. The best thing you can do is break up the rest of them and toss in the toilet quit cold turkey and avoid being around anyone that smokes for at least the next month. I was forced to smoke at 8 and was addicted at 13 and quit at 21. You’ll realize after about 3-4 months they’re revolting just being around the smoke. It’s so rewarding to your pocket, your mental health and physical health. I wish you and your boyfriend the best of luck.

I wish you and your boyfriend well on your journey to stop smoking. I'm 18 and I will never smoke (as long as I'm not tied up in a basement and someone threatens to cut off my hands if I don't smoke a cigarette).

@@helenaBeaucold turkey is definitely the way. I did the same thing. Smoked one last one with a friend and then broke all the rest. After a couple weeks without them and a little will power you just kind of forget about them and then the smell will start to gross you out

have you tried using vaping as a way to quit? With vaping you can slowly decrease the amount of nicotine in the vape juice. Cigarettes contain 12MG of nicotine per cigarette, you can get vape juice in 12MG, 6MG, 3MG and even 0MG. It's alot easier then trying to quit cold turkey and while yes you are still intaking nicotine atleast you aren't inhaling all the other harmful chemical that cigarette smoke contains, plus vape juice actually tastes good lol. I smoked for 15yrs, switched to vaping 5yrs ago been vaping 6MG. I tried a cigarette a year ago and almost puked it was disgusting.

replace smoking with an actual hobby you can do to keep occupied.... being occupied by something keeps your mind off of smoking, but also enables you to do things, make things, expand your life in new ways.....

Well, it had to last the whole night, right? 😅

It sounds like it would be awesome being friends with Brett.

Let's be honest, pretty charismatic girls can get away with being quirky, unattractive female would be ignored, almost any type of male would probably get kicked out.

GIRL DINNER IN ACTION

@@stumble_leinerwhatcho mean, baguettes regardless it’s being held by is literally iconic

Right? I quit the vapes exactly for that reason. Instead of finishing a cigarette and waiting like 15 30 minutes for another one the vape I would smoke constantly! Finishing a 600 drags vape in about 3 to 4 hours. Now I'm back on cigs but instead of 1 to 2 packs a day it's been cut down to max 2 packs a week.

Something that might be worth trying is the nicotine pouches you put under your lip. I was on at 20-27 Marlboro Reds a day every day for 5yr. I quit back in January but switching over specially to "Nordic Spirit Spearmint" and haven't touched a cig since and now I'm not even tempted being about to walk past smokers or offered a smoke and not want it (rather then forcing myself to not have it now it smells disgusting to me). I recommend the Spearmint as it gives you a slight burning sensation/head rush unlike the other flavours (including normal mint) which I think helps as it gives you a physical reaction to help your brain (kinda recreates the slight burn in your lungs/throat when you smoke). And while they say they release nicotine for an HR I often leave it in my mouth for 5 or so hr as having it in my mouth and it still having slight flavour tricks my brain into thinking I'm having nicotine when I'm not. So it's also weaning me off nicotine itself. When I first started I was having 5 pouches a day and would have to have my first pouch immediately after waking up. Now I'm on 2-3 a day and as I type this I've been awake for about 5hr and haven't had one yet, though not having one first thing in the morning is uncomfortable I'm now pushing myself to go longer before taking it so I can wean myself off. Obviously I'm sure there are some heath issues with the nicotine pouches and it's not getting rid of the addiction just the source of it BUT I'm sure it's better for your health then cigs and vapes and they come in different strengths. So the idea is you take them till you aren't tempted to smoke. Then you decrease how many you take, the strength you take and eventually you just stop. But again only recommend the Spearmint as it seems to have other benefits that the other flavours I've tried don't have.

@@thebloodyenglish6620 I remember during highschool, about 12 years ago, they were a thing, even had them too and found them more enjoyable than cigarette's. Didn't take long for the government to make them prohibited. Maybe I could ask my German uncle from across the border because I think Germany still has them. Anyway, thanks for the info, I appreciate it!

Same, now I'm 36 and have been quit for 4 years. It's really all mental. I know I heard that and never believed it but it's true. It's only so difficult because you see it as such a huge, unachievable task in your mind. And as soon as you quit and get a craving it makes you freak out and spiral. The huge deception is that it's soooooo addictive and soooo hard to quit. That's worse and more evil than the actual nicotine. It's really not that big of a deal. Just quit, you'll feel some withdrawals for a bit but it's no big deal. You've done much harder things in your life. This is no big deal and you can do it easily. That's the mental shift that needs to happen, then you will quit.

Yup, same thing for me with the vapes, I do it all the time and can't help but feel I would've been better off going outside and smoking occasionally again like I used to

Makes me think of people that are obviously out running but took a break to have a smoke 😂

Never smoked soo you wouldnt know

I'm not a smoker but I've heard of several cases of jobs allowing smokers to go take extra breaks to smoke, but those of us who don't only get designated work breaks if any breaks at all.

I used to work with a bunch of smokers... at break time they'd all go out to smoke and I'd tag along, just hanging out with my healthy lungs and talking lol. You don't have to be a smoker to be social either

@@mathildaelrod7655 Well, where I work smokers can take smoke breaks whenever they want. Although, everyone can do that. It is just that if you smoking it is perceived that you are doing something. Also, if you are not smoking the mood if something needs to be done is that you need to do it now, however if you are smoking it would be more like once you are done smoking then this needs done. There are certain positions where I work that the only acceptable reason to be away from your desk is to go to the bathroom, to be on lunch, or to be smoking. People working that position do not get a break unless it is really slow, or if they go out for a cigarette.

Worse, they are a passive aggressive way to harm everyone else around you too that isn't directly smoking. I actually started drinking in pubs more after the smoking ban in closed public spaces came into effect in my country - before that I just couldn't stand going into those places with all the smoke at busy times.

Did he ever tell you what the 'courageous' way to harm oneself might be as well, perchance?

By saving a life or two maybe

Hmm

That seems like a pretty melodramatic way to think of smoking cigarettes. Smoking a few cigarettes or inhaling some second hand smoke is not going to kill anyone, but tobacco does have some benefits, as well as simply being very enjoyable. I don't see how it's any more cowardly than enjoying a piece of cake. How does your dad view cigars or pipes?

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Where I work you can take breaks whenever you want to and light up a cigarette. However, if you are taking a break and not smoking it is like viewed as you are not doing anything, however if you are smoking it is viewed as oh he is just smoking. Plus my boss smokes a lot and she always says let's go have a cigarette. Whereas if I wasn't smoking it would be weird because then I would just not be doing anything. I also only get to see my friend when he comes out of the office to smoke. So when I see him come out to smoke, I smoke with him. This goes the same with the other person at my work we only ever get to talk when he comes out for a cigarette. None of the people that smoke would be outside during work hanging out except for if they were smoking... It is a sad reality. Personally I will mostly just smoke if someone else is out there, or if I need to get something done I might just finish it on the forklift, or finish the cigarette while working on something in the bays or something.

People don’t die from lung cancer from smoking cigars, unless they are confused and inhale them for some reason

@@user-te3qq1rb7uyou can still got several types of cancer with cigars

For every story like this there's an opposite one, my Grandmother smoked from when she was 12 years old every single day, she died at 98 years old, 86 years of smoking, my mother is in her early 70s now and has smoked for just as long.

Why? If I smoke let me, you don't see smokers going round telling people to start

in australia it's like $75 for just a 40 pack

proud of you man, being sober can be hard but you’re taking it day by day amazingly!!!!

​@@fantasea114it cost 36.90 in New Zealand and you now are not allowed to buy them if you were born from 2009 and on😂.

@@salvambala7779 yeah that's crazy! they were talking about doing the same thing here in aus lol

just roll them yourself y'all (if you do smoke and can't/don't want to quit), it's so much cheaper

Your employer isn't going to give you a vape break lolol. I used to smoke at an old job because it was the only way we got breaks. No smoking= no rest so of course we all smoked lolol.

Can you take a smoke break, light the cigar but not actually smoke?

@@user-kr2gq9gv9i Where I work you can take a smoke break whenever you want. There is one girl who vapes she comes out for like 30 seconds. The smokers take more like 5-25 minute breaks though. My friend smokes one cigarette then goes in, my boss smokes 1-3 cigarettes then goes in. It is viewed that if you are outside smoking you are doing something however if you were to go out and not smoke then you aren't doing anything.

I have since I was 12. Smoke more cigarettes. We have to fight back against the vape smokers.

I completely agree. It's sad that smoking is coming back. I've been smoking since 12, and now that I'm 27, I've tried to quit many times but have failed over and over. It's terrible for you, and the amount of money you spend smoking for what feels like stress relief in the moment is so dumb. Don't smoke kids.

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 ah yes big brain time. vaping is gay, smoking is less gay but is stupid nonetheless

I was at a school, where almost nobody smoked but as soon as I started learning my first job I am one of the only people that doesn't smoke. Everytime I have a break I am one of the only people that doesn't go to the smoking area.

Quitting nicotine really isn’t that hard. You’re not doing heroin. Pull yourself together and stop if it’s bothering you.

Weed is different than cigarettes. Also, sorry you weren’t invited. Maybe they didn’t think you would want to. Be around all that smoke

good, you don't want to hang around losers that smoke weed

fortunately weed is an entirely different thing from cugarettes

​​@@Resilience93they don't miss

you either.

I met my fair share of high on life people , they were all borderline insane by the time they hit 35. In contrast smokers were much more mentally balanced albeit with no cardio whatsoever.

@@Makyura43 That could be the rarest of the rare cases of meeting so called High on Life people. Because the kind of people I meet or I have in my Circle, we all enjoy life. We maintain a healthy diet, excercise daily, enjoy our jobs and lead a quiet and peaceful life.

Agree. Not sure about women but when looking at photos of adult men from around 1870 to 2010 across the world, quite safe to say smoking is linked to accelerated physical aging, especially hair loss. Up till 1970, a sizable portion of men really looked old by 40 and were losing a large portion of their hair. Not a coincidence men in less developed nations with higher incidence of smoking appeared to age faster than their white western counterparts. Another aging aspect was the loss of voice clarity. When listening to some WW2 generation persons who were in their 60s as of around 1985, a considerable number had weaker voices. As of 2015, the voices of a considerable number of white western men in their 60s sounded as if they had not aged much since they were 35.

Cigars are not addicting

your grandpa was way cooler, haha, cringeboy

I don't give a frig if my girlfriend smokes. I'm single and loving it.

@@jonesjermaine4387 💀

@@jonesjermaine4387 no thanks 🤢

​@@jonesjermaine4387lol

Brett is GOAT at her video sponsoring transitions 🤟😂

I’m only ever okay with Brett’s ads because it’s so smooth and clever I must respect it

They pulled the old "only sissys vape, don't you want to be cool kid" and these tard celebs are the evil minions. I quit with vape, and they HATE losing my constant money. I can actually breathe again.

BS

this is exactly what happened to my best friend, she started vaping when she was around 16 and now shes 18 and smokes cigs almost every day. when i asked why did she do the switch she said it was because she wanted "the real, serious thing"

@@borntobetogether it sucks, vape is a perfect alternative with none of the health risks. Big tobacco did a great job with propaganda, most of what people think about vape is totally wrong.

​@@burtleturtle0012it still has quite a bit of health risks but its still much better than cigs

You are not an oncologist. Look at your other comments on other RU-vid videos

Your cardiologist friends probably aren't too thrilled either.

you look like you’re a child, you even have braces, you’re definitely not an oncologist 😭😭😭

⁠@@summer_lover_13While I am not technically old enough, I have had a hyper fixation on the study since middle school. I found joy in learning the biology behind the disease, I read studies on new chemotherapeutic agents for fun, I watch collage lectures, I am in a magnet program for goodness sake. Yes, you are right, I am not an oncologist, but I sure as hell am on track to be one.

@@thexulgrunt6174​⁠​⁠ While I am not technically old enough, I have had a hyper fixation on the study since middle school. I found joy in learning the biology behind the disease, I read studies on new chemotherapeutic agents for fun, I watch collage lectures, I am in a magnet program for goodness sake. Yes, you are right, I am not an oncologist, but I sure as hell am on track to be one.

You are 100% correct

I had a similar experience, I havent smoked a cigarette all my life but all my friends smoked. I as never pressured to do anything and a lot of them quit actually.

I think peer pressure does happen for teenagers. Which is why there is such an emphasis on it since that is when you learn about how bad smoking is.

@@Falcormoor I remember it wasn't Mexico when I saw it lol... was several years back (over 10 I think) and the statistics for tobacco sales were down by over 20 percent in a brief period (less than a week). And yeah, even seeing the statistics, a lot of people still smoking were either addicted or didn't care about the packaging, but most did care and new smokers were quite rare.

Definitely Australia

@@rachel.isabelle thought it might be lol

Cute, but no. Australia’s overall _legal_ tobacco sales plummeted not due to the funny pictures, but due to them increasing the prices several fold overnight Most of Western-Europe has had those pictures on our packs for years now (we even collect them, because they keep coming out with new ones) and it barely affected the numbers if at all

@@dylannix4289 Must have been my public education then, as my teachers taught how great it lowered the rate of smokers. I would need to relook at all the stuff to know for sure, but it seems some teachers also taught the American Civil War was about slavery, so it might have been misinformation we were taught

Same, but mine was a flavored "cigar" (still felt like a cigarette lol). It definitely did not calm me down, just made me cough a lot.

​@@tbethwuss lol

​@@StajoLaBellbetter to be a wuss than have black lungs.

​@@StajoLaBellif your lungs hate smoke = healthy, if they love it = unhealthy(probably radioactive too)

@@soffren so no smoking weed either? WUSS