Comment on What does cigarette smoking do for people?
number6@feddit.nl 9 months agoMost of the smokers I’ve known don’t even get close to 80, and are often very sickly when they do. Two family members that didn’t make it to 60. A healthy looking co-worker who dropped dead in the parking lot. A former boss who didn’t get to enjoy more than two years retirement.
Cigarettes are the only consumer product that, when used as directed, kill their consumers.
PickTheStick@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Nah, alcohol shares the same boat. There are lots of examples if you really dig into the effects of various things. Alcohol and tobacco just kill you so slowly that it doesn’t drop profits.
number6@feddit.nl 9 months ago
No. Smoking is way more personally dangerous than alcohol, except for auto accidents. Tobacco hurts you in so many different ways – with sagging skin, lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, stained teeth, strokes, hypertension. Also, alcohol addicts only represent about 10% of the drinking public, whereas about 90% of smokers become chain-smoking addicts.
And, as I mentioned, smoking often kills people a decade short of retirement. Drinkers, on the other hand, often reach old age.
Not justifying alcohol, but there are so many downsides to smoking. But you can’t explain that to an addict.
can@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
You can die from alcohol withdrawals