I want my smokes to make me feel like I'm dying a little bit, thanks.
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Here ya go bud, 18 mg tar. I think there's an unfiltered too but I can't find it right now.
It's funny you're assuming they're telling the truth.
This is great it's basically saying: this lung cancer tastes great!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Exactly, that's why vapes come in many flavours and colours
I thought that the US banned flavored vapes. If your home country has not, encourage politicians to ban vapes altogether.
Because adults like many different flavors?
And colors. And flashing lights. Just look at how psychotic adult people go over fireworks.
It's a bullshit justification. Adults like flavors other than plain tobacco and menthol.
If it was really about protecting children, they'd ban flavored alcohol too.
It's not just about protecting children, it's about protecting everyone.
Nicotine is wildly addictive. Full stop. It and a host of other chemicals also cause a wide range of health issues that greatly strain the medical system, and put strains on healthcare budgets.
Since banning the product outright will likely not work, due to the aforementioned addictiveness, sensible countries have adopted a slightly different approach of making the cancer sticks as unappealing as possible, both to keep kids from starting and to help people already addicted quit.
Many places banned caffeinated booze for similar reasons.
host of other chemicals also cause a wide range of health issues
It's mostly the tobacco causing health issues, not the wonderfully addictive nicotine. But yeah, it's a good thing that flavored cigarettes are banned.
Though it seems like big tobacco found a loophole on the first day, as you can still get menthol cigarettes in EU... it's just not as strongly minted as it was prior to the ban.
I meant other chemicals in the tobacco.
https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/42/070/42070498.pdf
And that's the tip of the iceberg, there are chemical washes, pesticides, and other shit that's just as bad.
The worst is I could smoke 4 full strength hand rolled cigarettes, with all the harm of tobacco, and still be craving a single boxed cigarette because the additives and poisons they mix are missing from my bagged tobacco.
And the byproducts of combustion!
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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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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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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.
Flavored cigs are forbidden in Germany. Guess that's good.
It is a good thing. I hate cigarettes and this post made me curious what other flavors China has.
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.
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.
I know this to be mostly true. But I've probably smoked about 20 cigarettes in my life. I had one about 3 months ago. And before that it was over a year. So some people can smoke, and not get addicted. I suspect I don't have what ever gene makes you addicted to nicotine.
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Or just eat ice cream that isn't laced with a highly addictive substance.
No?
Sugarless ice-cream doesn't taste as good.
Then nut cancer from the mystery carcinogens.
cigarette
every bite
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My hope is that part is a mistranslation. The picture shows it being lit, anyway.
In cantonese, to smoke is sik yin, which directly translates to eat smoke. So it probably translated weirdly.
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Is that gold line where the filter ends?
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
Every single bite?
Om nom nom tasty cigarettes
Translated from Chinese
Yea in canto smoking is directly translated as eat smoke, so bite is kinda on par
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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