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Anti-Smoking Campaigns Succeeded Because Secondhand Smoke Directly Annoyed Bystanders
“I think the campaign against smoking worked, because people like me hated it when someone next to them would light up, or on a plane, or in a movie theater. If someone, if my next to a neighbor gambles, whatever, on their phone, on the airplane, I don't care.”
Arun: Phone addiction is worse than alcohol or smoking
“The worst addiction nowadays, it's not alcohol or it's not smoking. It's not anything else. It is the phone addiction.”
Israetel: Health harms of smoking stem from smoke, not nicotine
“Smoking is bad almost exclusively because you're smoking. Tar and all that stuff. If you take smoking here as a negative, nicotine pouch is right here, and a lot of people have this false equivalency idea of like, well, it's anything nicotine is bad. Relativel…”
Patrick: Low Omega-3 levels have a comparable mortality impact to smoking
“When you look at smokers with a high omega-three index, they have the same life expectancy as non-smokers with a low omega-three index. In other words, smoking was like having low omega-three, or having a low omega-three index was like smoking.”
Israetel: GLP-1 drugs suppress addictive drives for smoking, drinking, and compulsive habits
“They actually lower your addictive drive to almost everything. People like quit smoking. They're quitting drinking on these drugs. They're, they stop biting their nails and stuff.”
Smokers With High Omega-3 Match Life Expectancy of Low Omega-3 Non-Smokers
“Smokers with a high omega-three index, they have the same life expectancy as non-smokers with a low omega-three index.”
Mukesh Bansal: Alcohol Is As Harmful As Smoking
“I believe alcohol is as bad as smoking. It's only a matter of time before, ah, I think science already caught up. There is absolutely no dispute as far as science goes. But the mainstream media and the communication has not caught up. I think it's a matter of …”
Parr: Society will view smartphone usage like smoking cigarettes in 10-20 years
“But I do think in like, 1020 years, we, we're going to be anti-phone. We're going to be like, what the fuck? You're looking at this shit. This is like cancer. Why are you doing this? Why are you, you're smoking? What are you doing smoking? That's kind of like,…”
Sheppard Missett: Dancers smoke under the false impression it controls weight
“Well, you know, dancers are notorious for being smokers, you know, because I, You know, they always had the false impression that smoking kept their weight down.”
Annello: Quitting social media mirrors the difficulty and dynamics of quitting smoking
“The answer when it comes to smoking is probably going to be the same answer when it comes to social media, which is that a lot of people will fail and won't be able to do it, even with sincere intentions. Some people will be able to quit cold turkey. And some …”