Poll of the Day > Cancer stick PSA

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Obligatory you should quit, it burns the ends of your DNA, causes you to age faster, you know the drill

People feel weird about investing in a bad habit. However, if you continue to do the genocidal drug, you might as well save money. A pack in my area costs $10, and I need a new one every 4 days or so. (30/4)*$10= $75 a month, or $900 a year.

Alternatively, you buy a rolling machine, and pack it yourself. I bought 1 lb of tobacco for $16, that's enough for 600 cigarettes, or 3 cartons. A carton costs $100, and 3 of them cost $300. That means when you roll, past the initial investment, you only pay 5% of what you did previously, bringing your habit down to ~$3.75 a month, or essentially free. You'll save a ridiculous amount of money. If you quit the following month you would still save money. Once you quit, you can give your roller to someone else.

Rolling has the same filter and contents as a store bought pack, it's just sold as "pipe tobacco" in bags.

Maybe with that with money saved you'll have more resources and less stress that will make it easier to quit. If you're going to kill yourself slowly, then don't fork over your life savings to do it.

Might as well just buy a pipe.

Smokin' your life away on a
Cancer Stick

GanonsSpirit posted...

Might as well just buy a pipe.

The whole smoking cigarettes thing is getting taboo enough

Pretty sure if the average person saw you smoking a pipe they would think you're one year away from removing your teeth.

I miss smoking. Time to get really drunk.

wwinterj25 posted...

I miss smoking. Time to get really drunk.

It stinks, it kills you, and it's unattractive. You've got more willpower than me. Think about all the things you're grateful about having quit, rather than what you miss about it. Aren't you glad you don't have to stand outside 10 minutes at a time? At least, that's what people tell me is the best way to stay off cigarettes, one of the hardest drugs to quit.

Also, look into fermenting your own booze. For $5 of cheap apple juice you can get a gallon of sparkling cider, if you keep a couple fermenting kits running at all times you never run out. $27 each on Amazon.

Yellow posted...

Aren't you glad you don't have to stand outside 10 minutes at a time?

I can smoke in my own home and actually no. The graveyard shifts I did standing looking when the sun cam up over a meadow while smoking was beautiful. While I can't say I'll never smoke again I am better for not doing it I admit. I'm not against it though.

Your health is certainly the most important thing. No amount of money can undo the years cigarettes will take.

I can't comment on your drinking because I am currently a smoking alcoholic, haha. But I can't help but think saving up some money would help us.

Smoke weed instead

Cigarettes are foul and smokers tend to be completely oblivious to how far the stench spreads.

It takes you 4 days to finish a pack? I can start and finish a pack before noon. I switched to vaping years ago and now cigarettes do nothing at all for me except make me feel a little sick. I guess vaping doesn't do anything for me either except stave off nicotine withdrawal.

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speedpunk posted...

Smoke weed instead

Nah chew gummies

Zareth posted...

Nah chew gummies

Weed freaks me out, it costs half your income, and it almost definitely creates flat earthers. If you grow your own you can expect a visit from your civil servants.

It's not the worst drug out there but it's definitely overrated imo.

kind9 posted...

It takes you 4 days to finish a pack? I can start and finish a pack before noon. I switched to vaping years ago and now cigarettes do nothing at all for me except make me feel a little sick. I guess vaping doesn't do anything for me either except stave off nicotine withdrawal.

Yeah somehow I've remained a "light smoker" over all these years. Not bad enough to quit outright.

Yellow posted...

Weed freaks me out, it costs half your income, and it almost definitely creates flat earthers. If you grow your own you can expect a visit from your local civil servants.

It's not the worst drug out there but it's definitely overrated imo.

I just bought several eighths for eight dollars apiece today, legally. It isn't 2001 anymore, weed doesn't cost 60 an eighth. Literally the only major industry that has seen massive deflation.

Also flat earth has a correlation with anti semitism, not pot usage. People of all walks of life use weed, no reason to stereotype us all as morons.

Frankly I largely blame Jim Breuer for the stupid stoner stereotype, which is ironic since he's now a Qcumber

Meanwhile we don't have an obligatory liver disease juice PSA

wwinterj25 posted...

I miss smoking. Time to get really drunk.

tbh, while smoking is distasteful, at least it doesn't make people more criminal or violent.