A thought...
chompchompchomsky
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So, I'm a smoker, and I am visiting a foreign place right now (The North-West-Territories in Canada), and I have been meeting many people.
I've been hassled a lot by non-smokers, and one distinctive feature I have noticed among them is a depressive, petty, self-loathing that they carry with them everywhere.
My thought: Could everyone have a finite "destructive urge", and could non-smokers, non-addicts, etc., in failing to express that through addiction, become douche-bags?
I've been hassled a lot by non-smokers, and one distinctive feature I have noticed among them is a depressive, petty, self-loathing that they carry with them everywhere.
My thought: Could everyone have a finite "destructive urge", and could non-smokers, non-addicts, etc., in failing to express that through addiction, become douche-bags?
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Like the fucking ocean.
I'm a social smoker, and I smoke when stressed so I couldn't give two fucks,
What is it that dies? Maybe it is our deeper nature that people are truly afraid of.
Either way, nonsmokers complaints generally reek of the weak & the petty.
Damn, I never noticed this before but I think you're right...
But don't you care about how awesome and how much better he is than you? :facepalm:
I hate smug fuckers like that....
But God forbid they can't get a nic fix,,,,,:rolleyes:
We need a nicotine revolution :mad:
I disagree, although I think perhaps that the effects of the drug (nicotine) might cause you to believe this.
The context of smoking I find to be conciousness expanding. It seems irrelevant to me if the drug itself has that effect or not.
Only the happy will survive.
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/165/4/507
Smoking, whether you like it or not, has no effect on your intelligence. The only point I could easily see argued in relation to your cognitive abilities would be that as an addiction it is a distracting and destructive tendency. Or perhaps even that the moments spent smoking cause a person to be more genuinely reflective. Sure. But its nothing in the way of clearly quantifiable data. Just live and let live, and when people tell you about how bad smoking is tell them "I know. Thanks." and carry on as a free individual responsible for your own well being.
Just remember guys, only individuals profit from liberty, not governments or corporations. They will snatch it and direct your will at every turn.
There's a lot of data that says otherwise...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61M3UQ20100223
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100401151746.htm
1. Caused by anything mental.
2. Causing anything mental
So far, we've noticed they move together, but I'd bet damn good money there are muddling factors that give rise to the confusion expressed by thatsMYdog.
I don't wanna be rude but...don't be a dumbass.
Smoking is obviously more prevalent among the lower class. Ya know whats also more prevalent among the lower class? Lower IQ scores. And is it a far stretch to say that a dumber person will more easily fall into addiction? Thus dumber people more easily become more intense smokers. Correlation does not imply causation my friend.
Nowhere in either of those studies does it say that smoking CAUSES a drop in IQ.
From the first article:
"The findings suggest that lower IQ individuals are more likely to choose to smoke, rather than that smoking makes people less intelligent, Weiser and his team conclude."
Second article:
"People on the lower end of the average IQ tend to display poorer overall decision-making skills when it comes to their health," says Prof. Weiser.
lol I guess. which is kinda fucked up considering how expensive a habit it is...
Plenty more where that came from
Self-destructive tendencies are hard to come by in day to day life. I was saying people who smoke are trying to get away from the squares who don't, because at this point they know it's one of the few things that'll get those knobs to piss off.