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.

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

Is that gold line where the filter ends?

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.

Every single bite?

cigarette

every bite

unsubscribes

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 cornflakes:

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.

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

No?

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

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

Hmmm cancer scent.

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.

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.

Then nut cancer from the mystery carcinogens.

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