On 30 Mar 2024, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...
pF> DW> My friend wondered why his dad did that so one day he tried one. He
pF> DW> got a pretty big buzz off of it and assumed that was why! ;)
pF>
pF> Chewing tobacco was all the rage when I was in high school with the
pF> jocks. I remember trying it once, realized I didn't play football, hang
pF> out with football players and cheerleaders, and didn't want to walk
pF> around with a cup full of saliva, so I went back to caffeinated colas
pF> for my stimulus.

back in my high school days i only knew one person that met the "country boy" criteria.. whatever that means i guess. but he brought a coke bottle with him at all times to spit into, even at the movie theater. i always thought it was weird that nobody said anything but obviously the older employees (who i guess would be in their 50s and 60s by now) knew what was up and those people got a free pass. better than them spitting on the theater floor i guess.

if they'd stop recreating variants of the product young people wouldn't know about it and we could just let it die.. nothing screams dumbass like a wrinkley old man whose face is messed up with cancer because he couldn't give up the chewing tobacco the first time they treated him for it..

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Re: Re: zynn
By: fusion to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Mar 31 2024 03:38 pm

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> if they'd stop recreating variants of the product young people wouldn't know
> about it and we could just let it die.. nothing screams dumbass like a
> wrinkley old man whose face is messed up with cancer because he couldn't
> give up the chewing tobacco the first time they treated him for it..

Well it's still popular to smoke over here. I think vaping was super popular but then it tapered off. most people i know who, vape smoke AND vape.

i wonder if these companies have worked on scientifically eliminating or reducing the cancer causing chemicals in tobacco.

I still see young people smoking, I guess it's easier than having all the hardware for vaping. cigs are just so damn expensive now. when i stopped smoking it was 3.50 a pack.
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Mr> Well it's still popular to smoke over here. I think vaping was super
Mr> popular but then it tapered off. most people i know who, vape smoke
Mr> AND vape.

Seems to be both are used here. I've noticed the "upper class" people vape
and the poor folk are smokers. Which is quite amazing as a pack of cigs is
around $20 now. (25 in a pack)

I'm glad I quit in 2007!

Shawn

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Re: Re: zynn
By: MRO to fusion on Sun Mar 31 2024 08:12 pm

> I still see young people smoking, I guess it's easier than having all the ha
Smokers here started vaping because they were allowed to vape in lots of placesin which they weren't allowed to smoke - such as bars. Then lawmakers equated
smoking with vaping and vape fell off the cliff.

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