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I’m proud to say I am 3 months smoke free, after 15 years smoking without a break!
There ya go, keep it up! And if no one has said it, I am proud of you.
I quit in September! Congrats! Quitting smoking was way harder than quitting drinking for me, and I was a daily drunk functional alcoholic for years.
Wow, qutting drinking and smoking, you must be a strong character. I don’t know you but I’m pretty proud of you. Wish you the best!
Thanks, it was tough, but very worthwhile. Hope the best for you also!
We’re counting on you now
Well done pal! Keep the good work
Good job to all the people quitting!
Think of all that tobacco farmland that could be converted to food crops
You want to convert something to useful land? Get rid of golf courses.
Por que no los dos?
And livestock
We have way more than enough livestock. Humans should be eating less meat.
Sorry for not being clear; that was the point I was trying to make.
Livestock produces high quality nutrients.
Not for the same resource input it doesn’t.
Conveniently forget the fact that many vital amino-acids are really hard to get by, without meat in your diet.
Vital eh?
I’d forgotten that I ought to be dead.
I’d forgotten that I ought to be dead.
Well, I’d advise you to get yourself checked for deficits at least.
Humans can synthesize all amino acids themselves. Any external source is optional, and outside of extreme scenarios like quickly gaining muscle mass nothing you need to think about.
If you do find yourself in the extreme scenario, you will have no problems picking from the huge range of non-meat protein sources.Humans can synthesize all amino acids
No they can’t synthesize them all, thats sort of the problem. Those that can’t be synthesized are the essential amino acids. Most, but not all of these essential acids are easily available in a vegan diet. Those that aren’t as available, well, better find a good strategy to get enough of those.
Livestock is one of the reasons we can feed everyone…
Quite the reverse in fact! Livestock produces fewer calories and nutrients per square meter than crops.
No it does not. You cannot eat nor consume what livestock does, period. Their entire diet is shit you cannot eat, it’s literally roots, and stalks and basically garbage your body cannot use. They also drink non portable water.
On earth we have a land shortage. If you grow animal feed, that could have also been a foodcrop. In terms of land efficiency, meat is an order of magnitude less efficient.
We do not grow crops for just animal feed, the majority of what they consume is waste byproducts from what you are able to consume. It’s around 85% of their diet. So unless you have a way to all of a sudden eat stalks or roots or leaves and grass, it’s wasted if not feed to livestock.
Do we actually need more food crops though?
I thought we already produced enough food to feed the whole planet. Distribution is the real problem.
Smaller more diverse farms would help, but the grocery stores would have to learn how seasonal, regional crops work. Instead of offering pineapples, kiwis, and strawberries 365 days a year.
Instead of offering pineapples, kiwis, and strawberries 365 days a year.
Why can’t they? At least in North America refrigerated railcars make year round fresh fruit an option. Plus frozen fruit is an option anywhere
I vote just keeping the fields dormant so we can actually do crop rotation and stave off massive crop failures.
Personally I’d like to see the fields replaced with the forests that were cut down for them in the first place but that’s not likely to happen
They’d just be replaced by soft woods to be cut down every 20 or 30 years. Trees are nice, but North America’s old growth forests are what they are at this point. They’re not a great carbon sink, either.
IMHO, trees got stuck in the mind of the environmentalist movement in the 1970s, and it distracted from a bunch of things that were way more important. I’d almost call it controlled opposition.
Would work if we decentralized the fuck out of everything and people could live in the forests
Millennials killing the tobacco industry
The industry interference: Here have more of the stinky cancer paper tubes that don’t do anything but make you addicted then sooth the addiction.
There is a high from nicotine, it just goes away so quickly as you get addicted.
It also goes away quickly when not addicted.
Source: tried nicotine, was disappointed.
Try it again!
Congratulations, you have been awarded the “Worst Advice of the Month” award. Shame on you.
That’s not the only thing they do. They also reduce your capacity for work… and life. I have a reason to believe that people dying from “overwork” are actually because:
- People work (and play) more when they are young and in school etc.
- Get used to their ability to work as much and subconsciously set a mental bar.
- Get into office space full of secondary smoke / start smoking
- Smoke reduces their ability
- They don’t realise their reduced ability and keep on working as much as previously set bar.
- dedz
Just a hypothesis. No scientific backing.
… other than first hand exp with reducing ability to work after long term exposure in a heavily contaminated environment.
What offices have smoke?
Overwork is still very common despite less people smoking.
Also, nicotine is a simulant and really doesn’t make you less productive. Just like coffee won’t. Actually there’s an argument it should help.
nicotine
I won’t act like I know what comes out of people’s exhalation after they come into an unventilated room after smoking in the stairway just next to it (with the only door blocking anything, being always kept open), but I can say for sure that:
- Cigarettes give out much more than just nicotine vapour.
- The smokers in question have proven to be neither more competent, nor more productive. On the contrary, they sit around, asking other ppl to do their work (in the name of help) and as the other people waste their own time explaining their work as they do it, the smokers don’t even learn from what is being taught to them.
If it is a stimulant that comes out of that smoke, it’s definitely stimulating unwanted attributes of the brain.
Wish so much that I’d never started. This shit is so addictive.
Good. Now it’s oil’s turn.
Tucker Carlson cancelled by big healthcare before he could get the check from Philip Morris.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-nicotine-frees-your-mind
I thought we were over it. But there are so many school teenagers on the way to school in my area, smoking. The stinky normal kind. They must be really stressed out?
I’ve been surprised in recent years how much more smoking has subtly popped back up in media. Most times it’s also not in a way that applies to the plot or illuminates anything you didn’t already know about a character.
Also in sports, things like Nickelodeon getting so involved with the NFL for kids with cartoon recreations of games, etc. They are propping up a new generation of sports hero role models in people like Joe Burrow. For awhile, he’d be celebrating all their victories with trashy cigar parties in the locker room, as like, a kid in his early 20s who just got slimmed by Nickelodeon a few days before?
It’s been pretty odd to see the resurgence in media in the last decade plus.
I don’t smoke in any regular capacity. Last time I smoked was new years this year. The time before that was October '22.
On new years eve I drank, and I thought I could keep the alcohol high going if I smoked. Bad idea, the next day was shot too. Completely fucked. Never again.
Every time I smoke I’m reminded why I didn’t smoke for >1 year prior.
Fuck cigarettes. Vaping is the new thing now 😎
Edit: woah, I meant it as a joke. Guess I deserve all the downvotes for not clarifying.
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Hard metals > tobacco
