Wanna see me stick nine inch nails through each one of my eyelids?
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Submitted 11 months ago by WashedOver@lemmy.ca to lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Emerald@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Copy me and do exactly as I did
FrenLivesMatter@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Pilot a drone and use it to blow up 9 kids
alienanimals@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tobacco is a shitty drug. We should ban it entirely and federally legalize another drug like cannabis instead.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I’m all for legalising cannabis, but to ban tobacco seems pointless.
I want to legalise or decriminalise drugs because it doesn’t work. Banning tobacco also will not work.
Tax high - use money for education and healthcare.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ah yes. The poorest people are the smokers, let’s just make them more miserable. Sounds about right.
You should work at a place that sells cigarettes for awhile and scope out the customers. I’ve seen people count pennies and cry because they’re hungry but they’d rather not experience the anxiety of nicotine withdrawal.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Cause banning cannabis worked so well lol
theangryseal@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Prohibition of any drug is stupid. Especially a damn plant.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Imagine looking at the war on drugs, prohibition in the US, etc then thinking “I think we should ban this drug that’s already normalised and used by millions. Then nobody will use it and everything will be fine.”
It. Doesn’t. Work.
It especially wouldn’t for something as addictive as nicotine and so trivially purchasable abroad and easy to import.
Tobacco is already dying. Just let it continue to run its course.
Eheran@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is what I do not get. The effect is literally zero. You need to be addicted to even feel something, and then it is only not having withdrawal.
zaph@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The effect is fucking awesome… The first couple of smokes. Then it’s only effect is getting rid of the headache withdrawals cause.
shalafi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you’ve never been a smoker, maybe withhold your opinion on the effects?
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Obviously smoking anything isn’t good for you, but tobacco on it’s own isn’t that bad; it’s all the chemicals added that make it so shitty.
However, unless you grow your own or know a farmer, good luck finding any pure tobacco.
psud@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Tobacco on its own will cause cancer. Note how pipe and cigar smokers get mouth cancers despite taking only pure tobacco
gila@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That is patently false. There is only one single risk factor for cancer generally that is bigger problem than smoking unprocessed tobacco - that is smoking processed tobacco. If you charted endemic cancer risk factors in order of risk, with smoking processed tobacco is at the top, then smoking unprocessed/organic/raw tobacco would be about 5% away from the top. The next biggest risk factor would be obesity about halfway down the chart
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It should be pointed out that the vast majority of the military are in support career fields, not combat units. Also, the GI Bill absolutely makes it worth it.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah less than ten percent is combat trained and tasked and only a tenth of them (so 1% of the total) are combat veterans.
Most of the people you’ve thanked for their service probably worked at a job that civilians do everyday like fixing things or doing paperwork. Just in a uniform.
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My primary job was a logistics account, but that meant I had to inventory high value items at Forward Operating Bases in Iraq and Afghanistan and I drove in a few convoys, only once anything significant happened.
DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social 11 months ago
And the VA loan. That's how I got my house!
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Generally speaking, a military career is the best means of advancement in social class for Americans. You’ll easily move up the middle class and likely upper middle class or upper class depending on time served.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can’t you, like, buy weed at 18? Or what about vapes? Plenty of literal children using those.
DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 11 months ago
There's no state that allows recreational purchase under 21. Vapes are considered a tobacco product regardless of nicotine content and also require you to be 21.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Where I live weed is 21, tobacco is 18
FarFarAway@startrek.website 11 months ago
im guess im assuming you live in the us, but you might want to double check that.
Tobacco sales to anyone under the age of 21 has been federally illegal since 2021.
assembly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All tobacco and vape got set to 21 and over where I live so just military and adult jail as benefits of turning 18 now.
zeze@lemm.ee 11 months ago
- Emancipated from parents
- Can sign contracts and take out loans
- Vote + run for office
- Work a job without a permit, age-capped hours, and on machinery deemed 18+ only for safety.
- Full licence instead of provisional
There’s more, but turning 18 grants a lot of rights still.
Emerald@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Image Transcription: Meme
Government: Tobacco is dangerous. You need to be 21 to buy it
Also government *sending military recruiters to high schools*:
[An image of a man in a red suit captioned with the text “Hi kids! Do you like violence?”]
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And youth ain’t gonna have the chance to drink until they turn 21 ffs.
gila@lemm.ee 11 months ago
My parents would buy RTD spirits for my sister aged 15 when she was going to a friend’s party or something. They’re cops
EnderMB@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In certain parts of America.
PixelatedCleric@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Forever annoyed that my students have to get recruiters in our school to show up and try to persuade them to join ARMY, NAVY, etc.
🫠 Worst of all was when one of them showed up on International PEACE Day.
Gabu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, but on the other hand: fuck tobacco, smoking and all drugs. Drugs are for losers.
problematicPanther@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, but when you’re stoned, you don’t care if you’re a loser. That’s the point of getting stoned.
vsh@lemm.ee 11 months ago
🇺🇸🤝🇷🇺
NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 11 months ago
Dying for big tobacco: omg what a tragedy
Dying for big oil: omg he’s a hero
Pick your corporate servitude carefully kids
JustMy2c@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Dude, you finally made me understand.
it’s just big corporations fighting amongst themselves for available manpower and manlives. But still much better as the alternative, which is politicians fighting amongst themselves for manpower etc
Wogi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Politicians do it in public, corps do it in secret.