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[-] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago

I liked my sister's answer when someone offered her cigarettes to try.

"If I don't like it, it will be a shitty experience. If I do like it, that's much worse. There's no way for me to smoke a cigarette and win."

[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

I mean as cliche as this seems to be an an answer, I think the best solution is to not try them in the first place. You can't lose if you never play the game.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Yeah. It's weird that just saying "no" really is the best move. We just shouldn't count on it when teaching kids about substance abuse.

Just like with abstinence-only sex education, basing the entire strategy around just one method of preventing an unwanted outcome is dumb.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You can’t lose if you never play the game.

Except get cancer from second hand smoking.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

there is that (as someone who had parents and grandparents who were smokers) but it is also quite unfair, you never asked for them to be smokers or smoke around you and when you are a child your attempts to convince them to stop smoking is met with laughter more often than not.

I think a big part on why I'm not a smoker is I saw what it did to people, and how second hand smoke has affected me. I'd be in a room with my mother and grandfather, trying to find clean air inside my grandfather's small apartment because both of them were smoking at the same time. I never want to make another human experience that.

Best thing you can do is to break the chain if others in your family do it I guess. I will never smoke, there's literally nothing in it for me or those around me.

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