Comment on But of course we don't want to poison our child.

tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Friendly reminder. THIS is the type of bullshit the boomers grew up with, and see nothing wrong with.

  But a 16 year old at Walgreens working register needing to call for a manager to sell cigerettes because she legally can’t? Well that teenager is clearly what’s wrong with society!

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You know, before it was scientifically proven that smoking, asbestos, leaded gasoline, heroine, thalidomide/contergan, etc etc were health hazards, people had no reason to believe that those things were unhealthy.

    I totally agree that it’s bullshit someone can’t legally sell cigarettes or alcohol while being underage when the recipient is old enough, but believing those things are healthy in a time where it was sold as state of the art or even miracle cures doesn’t really mean boomers are dumb.

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• m_f@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Reduces flesh” is such odd wording. Whose flesh? What flesh?

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What flesh?

    I expect this:

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Cigarette_smoking_for_weight_l…

    Cigarette smoking for weight loss is a weight control method whereby one consumes tobacco, often in the form of cigarettes, to decrease one’s appetite. The practice dates to early knowledge of nicotine as an appetite suppressant.

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They mean the nicrotic flesh rotting off later in life, getting a foot or a leg amputated is the fastest way to loose weight after all. Worked a year in a ward for smoking patients, the smell is so haunting…

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  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They seem to imply that if instead of eating a snack you have a cigarette, then you’ll lose weight

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    • m_f@midwest.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, “flesh” is just such weird wording though. Like saying “reduces meat”

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• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unreal.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It was written in the newspaper. Right there !

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