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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Chinese aren’t ahead of the curb here, they are significantly behind. Flavored cigs got banned in most countries many years ago because they did too good a job. I expect the same thing will happen in China soon.

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  • Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One of the reasons they were banned was also because it made them more attractive to children and teenagers. That’s also one of the reasons a lot of places don’t allow fancy designs on cigarette packs and it forces them to show those gruesome pictures of throat cancer and stuff.

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    • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Exactly, that’s why vapes come in many flavours and colours

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  • Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    the tabacco lobby there (state owned, makes basically the same amount of money the chinese military spends) banned flavored vapes so the citizen take cigarettes instead

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Is this why some manwha/hua mc smoke?

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s worse than that, the tobacco regulator and the company with a monopoly on tobacco production/sales is the same organisation 💀

      Holy conflict of interest Batman

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Except cigarettes are a state-run monopoly over there.

    The main reason things are going so slowly is that they can’t bring themselves to stop making so much money.

    The same institution that’s supposed to promote the facts about the health-risks of smoking is the one making stupid amounts of money making and selling it.

    If they ever stop, it’ll be because they transition to other nicotine products, are shift to exporting the product to developing countries (which they already are).

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  • wdx@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    unlikely. Basically all cigarettes are produced by CNTC or one of their subsidiaries.

    CNTC is owned by the state and rakes in a lot of money for the government.

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    • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There’s a profit ceiling, though. And a lot of countries are finding out that the larger cost of cigarette usage is borne by the healthcare systems that need to spend a disproportionate volume of resources to manage the various health complications caused by a lifetime of smoking.

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    • sangeteria@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The liquor stores in Canada are primarily monopolize by the provincial governments, which is for the best, but it does have its obvious negative externalities lol. I always make an effort to go to a govt store over a private corp if I can

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  • teslekova@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Curve

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Didnt they already ban vapes?
    Or did I mishear something.

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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Flavored cigs are forbidden in Germany. Guess that’s good.

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  • frog@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It is a good thing. I hate cigarettes and this post made me curious what other flavors China has.

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I remember rumours at school that the strawberry flavour could get you instant addicted.

    I doubt that is true, but I considered it a positive that people were worried about it.

    Then the modern vape cartridge got invented and just like that the youth is back to paying companies to inhale poison.

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    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They were kinda right. Any cigarette is pretty much instant addicted if you smoke it all. The flavour just ensures youre more likely to do it. A lot of people take one or two puffs, cough their lungs out and say “sweet jesus thats fucking gross get that away from me”. The ones who make it the full smoke usually are in for life.

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  • Ioughttamow@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, I started with clove cigarettes. Wish I had never started, but at least I’m well and truly done with smoking

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  • MofuMoth@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same in Sweden, its specifically to not encourage people to smoke.

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  • danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wat?

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• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Every single bite?

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  • gray@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Translated from Chinese

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    • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yea in canto smoking is directly translated as eat smoke, so bite is kinda on par

      youtube.com/shorts/4V4Ko42jwGU

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  • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Om nom nom tasty cigarettes

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• HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is that gold line where the filter ends?

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  • danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The future is NOW! Are you classified as human?

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    • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No, I am a meat popsicle.

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  • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And it looks like the crush ball is below their finger? Maybe more than one? I wouldn’t buy a pack of these but i would bum one with intense curiosity

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• HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So theres this american dude on youtube who cycles through China and the way he connects to locals is usually by offering cigarettes. Very fun videos; “Bicycling trough China, one cigarette at a time” was the first I think I saw.

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  • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What’s his channel?

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    • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Here you go!

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• DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  every bite

  unsubscribes

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My hope is that part is a mistranslation. The picture shows it being lit, anyway.

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    • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In cantonese, to smoke is sik yin, which directly translates to eat smoke. So it probably translated weirdly.

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    • DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      "It tastes like burning!"

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• gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  lots of food products taste boring in the west because

  • we’ve been told that stuff that tastes good is probably full of additives and therefore bad for your health (think of all the chemicals!)
  • and because of the same christian mindset that got us the corkflakes:

  Cereal would create fortunes and create multinational companies that we still know today. But Dr. John Harvey Kellogg , the inventor of corn flakes, did not care about profits. For him, cereal was not just a health food because it would improve Americans digestion. He believed a diet centered on bland foods like cereal would lead Americans away from sin. One very specific sin: masturbation.

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  • underscores@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As someone who ate lots of cereal and probably broke records cranking it: he was wrong

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  • epicstove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thank god my regular unflavoured cigarette don’t have any dangerous chemical!

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  • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Watch the road to wellness, it’s about Kellogg and it’s fantastic. Matthew Brodrick gets jerked off by a machine and gets a bunch of yogurt jammed in his butthole and at some point corn flakes come up. You know, proper cinema of a bygone age long past.

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    • nomy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      *The Road to Wellville

      Great movie, great casting, very funny.

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• xorollo@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I want my smokes to make me feel like I’m dying a little bit, thanks.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Here ya go bud, 18 mg tar. I think there’s an unfiltered too but I can’t find it right now.

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I will pick those up next time I’m in Japan. I don’t smoke, but everyone else in asia does, I found foreign cigerettes make a good gift if someone helps me and it would be weird to give money.

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    • xorollo@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Image

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    • Tiral@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s funny you’re assuming they’re telling the truth.

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• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Or just eat ice cream that isn’t laced with a highly addictive substance.

  No?

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  • Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sugarless ice-cream doesn’t taste as good.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Can we please not advertise cigarettes on Lemmy?

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cigarettes 🤬

    Cigarettes but Chinese 😍

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Guess it depends on your perspective but for me this just reminded me of how disgusting cigarettes are

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• Johanno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ah yes rhe typical “light the filter and smoke it from the wrong side” people.

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  • Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The ash looks more like “ginormous filter” or random golden ring

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  • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    nah i think the purple thing is the filter … the smoke goes through it and acquires scent that way.

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• A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hmmm cancer scent.

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• grahamja@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In Iraq rhey have cigs with two different flavor capsules in the filter, it was a novelty. I do remember carrying crushes at bars, in case you met someone who liked menthols. I’m glad I quit, but it was fun at the time.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t miss the smoking so much. I miss the social aspects. I met so many people just by smoking outside occasionally. Didn’t even have to do anything. Just stand there and stuff starts happening around you.

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  • tio_bira@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They aren’t that new, on Brazil, you just pop a small bubble to get it mentol flavored, i used to sold a lot of those not so long ago

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• NathanRanch@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t like smoking. I think I ought to be free to decide that for myself. I can’t, or by proxy, make that determination for anyone else - even though I don’t think they should be smoking if they choose to.

  If it didn’t make so much money, kids wouldn’t be vaping. It’s an integral part of the American performance that, “nothing we can do about it”, is just what everone sees, and therefore thinks. We could prosecute parents for letting their kids have them, prosecute the gas stations for peddling it, prosecute the companies making them cheap and disposable. All of that would turn off the faucet on a billion dollar industry though, so it becomes part of our performance in one way or another. We have fundamentally bet that our world is a better place with smoking children in it, than without. That is what Capitalism does, that is how it does it. That is why it needs to be controlled like a rabid dog on a leash.

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  • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I HATE that THC disposables are legal. I’ve had 2 of them and keep them in a little jar in case they ever randomly choose to catch fire

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    also not to mention how horrible they are for you. I only used them when I was a minor and couldn’t get weed by myself.

    There’s not enough education that you can enjoy weed without risking lung cancer by using a dry herb vaporizer and keeping it at ~380°F (depends on the strain tho) and it doesn’t make you cough up a lung every time you take a blinker!! also flower is cheaper than carts too!! (though the device is a bit of an investment at $200).

    it’s fucking great and I’m tired of getting “I don’t care about my body” from ppl any time I recommend it because I love my friends and want them to understand what they’re actually doing!!!

    also it has a pocket bong attachment. Bitches love the pocket bong.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve got bad lungs and a dry herb vape was a game changer. I miss the taste of burning flower, but it’s not bad and it feels so much less rough. I’m off pot at the moment, but when I’m back to doing it, dry herb + edibles all the way.

      And yeah fuck disposables.

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    • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What is the device you posted? Is it the center of it that heats up? Fits into your shirt pocket? 🤔😉

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  • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I appreciate disposable vapes existing because there are unfortunately few ways to actually get plain lithium batteries in alaska.

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is great it’s basically saying: this lung cancer tastes great!

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• subgenius@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Then nut cancer from the mystery carcinogens.

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Meanwhile can’t even get menthols in MA.

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• the_q@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Killing in the name of…

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• thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In Search of Lost Time for the twitter era

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Welcome to flavor country

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Looks like Asian plums. I’ve seen that it’s a popular flavor in candy and stuff in Japan at least.

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