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Re: Hindenburg’s Smoking Room

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Post by DaedalusII » Wed, May 20, 2026, 3:46 AM UTC

bonesss wrote: post #171

WalterBright wrote: post #140

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Kids today may think they're smarter than boomers because they don't smoke. But instead they smoke marijuana. There's nothing smart about that.

Combusted cannabis doesn’t have the cancer outcomes associated with combusting with nicotine. Same for second hand smoke. Cannabis is not laced with perfumes and additives as a rule, as commercial cigarettes are. Cannabis has properties that pair well with physical and cardiovascular activity, unlike cigarettes, even when smoked. Cannabis habits in youth are also displacing booze and associated lifestyle risks and li…

yeah its awesome, the only side effect is mental illness and dementia

Re: Hindenburg’s Smoking Room

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Post by cogogo » Wed, May 20, 2026, 11:38 PM UTC

b65e8bee43c2ed0 wrote: post #170

cogogo wrote: post #91

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I think the argument is that vaping is far more addictive for young people because of exactly what you say. Does not feel harmful and they end up very addicted at higher doses of nicotine than cigarettes

so let it only be sold to adults, sure. I'm just saying that equating vaping to smoking is absurd, because it's not nicotine that breaks your heart and your dick and gives you cancer, it's the smoke.

Vaping is still objectively horrible for the lungs.[0] And I would be slower to argue about the cancer. Do we know yet? It is a young vice.

[0]https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/evali

Re: Hindenburg’s Smoking Room

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Post by tengwar2 » Sat, May 23, 2026, 11:48 AM UTC

iso1631 wrote: post #167

jasonkester wrote: post #152

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There are good overnight ferries from England to France, Ireland and the Netherlands. Cheap too. We live in France and often spend the summer visiting family in the north of England. For a family of four, it works out about the same price to take the Rotterdam to Hull night ferry (outside cabin, meals and all) as it would to go through Calais and spend the night in a hotel instead. And then it’s 2 hours of driving in…

Spain, Shetland, Channel Islands too. Sadly the old overnights to Denmark and Norway no longer run. Loads in the Baltic and Mederteranian too, Spain to the Canaries and Mallorca, Sicily to Naples, Venice and many other Italian ports to Greece, several in Greece. Alas no longer a ferry from Greece to Cyprus/Israel/Egypt. Bulgaria to Georgia too [0], cross the caspian sea [1]. [0] https://horizonhunt.com/en/a-slightly-…

I really wish the ferry over to Norway still ran, but the one I just missed by a couple of years ran from Denmark up to Shetland, then to Faroe and Iceland. I had wanted to ride up to Shetland and then take the bike up further. I think you can still do it as a foot passenger, but there is no vehicle service.