I remember ashtrays in elevators. Imagine smoking in an elevator, and the person complaining about it was considered the idiot, not the smoker.
The Disappearance of the Ashtray
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#502While it's great to see smoking becoming less ubiquitous, it was kinda cool to see a small niche of high-end creativity in making modern ashtray furniture as part of Seth Rogen's weed×pottery start-up[0]
Surprised it wasn't mentioned in the article given his renown (unless I overlooked it while reading) - he's even got the standing type heavily featured in the article.
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it's quite a shame, because it's much cleaner and less dangerous than other ways of taking up nicotine.
I agree, but also know what a Swedish school looks like, with such pouches stuck in various places, ceiling etc.
My uk school had chewing gum in those places rather than nic pouches.
The nic pouches are probably a LOT easier to cleanup than chewing gum.
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That's untrue. You (maybe) choose to start smoking, but once you have started, choice is entirely taken away from you. Incidentally, that's precisely what helped me quit (a long time ago): I realized I was a slave to the cigarette and the only way to be free again was to stop it altogether. It was one of the hardest thing I ever had to do. I stayed in bed for four days trying to think about something else and sleepin…
I always describe quitting smoking as both the easiest and the hardest thing I have ever done. I wanted to quit for so long and suffered many, many failed attempts. I tried all kings of methods, acupuncture, gum, etc. All to no avail. In hindsight I didn't really want to quit. I wanted to quit for my health, for my morning cough, for my wife, for all kinds of reasons. But not really for me . I liked it, and quitting…
Carr's book is underrated by smokers who haven't read it and loved by ex-smokers who have.
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You don't have to ban smokers to ban smoking on a sub. Smokers don't have to smoke, they merely choose to do so.
Exactly. People replying to you are acting like a smoker will literally explode if they don't smoke for a few months. Some of these comments are truly bizzare! We're talking about cigarettes here. Just like a nonsmoker, smokers are just fine being forced to go without cigarettes while underway. My husband was both a smoker and a submariner at the same time for many years. He couldn't stand vaping or using dip so he w…
I have a friend in Germany who gives up smoking for the entirety of Lent. It always seemed so stupid to me, since if I could have given up for that long, I wouldn't have gone back. I was a smoker for many decades who gave up three months ago, and feel kind of cheated by how easy it was and how little I miss it (wish I had done it far, far earlier).
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#506 ashtrays :: cigarettes :: cancer
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You can definitely buy pouches of tobacco to be used like snus in the UK (and I'm almost certain that was the case before Brexit, too). Unless "snus" has some specific definition that's illegal and the UK sells an alternative? Not sure, last time I tried snus was in Finland over a decade ago.
Actual snus(powdered tabbaco sold and advertised as a product you put up your nose) isn't legal for sale in the UK: https://www.buynicotinepouches.co.uk/blogs/news/buying-snus-...
Nasal snuff is absolutely legal to sell in UK: https://www.mcchrystals.co.uk/news/nasal-snuff
Snus refers to Swedish pouches with boiled (or somehow sanitized, can’t remember exactly) tobacco, as opposed to other kinds. Snuff can refer to stuff you put under your lip or up yer nose.
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It is even better than that. Smokers used to sit and smoke in "non-smoking" to be away from the stale smoke.
It was like this on trains in the UK until fairly recently. The smoking carriage was generally pretty empty, but was frequented by those that needed to get their hit who then returned to the cleaner coaches.
The Long Island Railroad eliminated smoking cars something like twenty-five years ago because they cost so much more to clean.
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Actual snus(powdered tabbaco sold and advertised as a product you put up your nose) isn't legal for sale in the UK: https://www.buynicotinepouches.co.uk/blogs/news/buying-snus-...
How is snus different from snuff? Cursory google seems to suggest you can buy snuff in the UK, which is also powdered tobacco that you put up your nose
Since there’s a lot of wrong info in the responses… snus is the word for snuff in Sweden and traditionally had an extra sanitization step (boiling IIRC), which was different enough that it became it’s own term, because quality was better. Snus is almost universally used under the lip, but I think used to be used nasally too.
Snuff is just the English name, and can refer to nasal snuff, dip, pouches. Just means it’s ground up tobacco and isn’t anymore specific than that. Regionally it means whatever way of using it is most common.
Basically it’s confusing in the same way if you ask and American or European about football. Technically the word is not specific but it has very strong regional definitions
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#510Don't fret, the world of legal cannabis is helping to keep the ashtray alive. As we millennial stoners turn into middle aged adults we're learning to do things like ash into ashtrays instead of old cups and have nice decor in our homes