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Re: On cigarettes

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Despite having never smoked a single cigarette in my life, I have an intensely strong reaction to a very specific brand. Early in high school I met my first crush, and one summer learned that she liked me back. She was my first everything. And the scent of a lot of that teenage exploration was the awful but sweet smell of her parents’ basement, stained with that brand of cigarette. I have no clue what brand it is. Bu…

I don't think I ever saw anyone identify a brand just by the smell. it's impossible. most brands from the same parent company are made at the same factory from the same batch of the same chemical-soaked tobacco pulp. it's just the filters and packages that are different. when I smoked, chesterfields, l&ms, pall malls, winstons, parliaments, etc, all tasted and smelled the same to me. only the cheapest godawful local…

If you sniff an individual who is smokes Marlboro reds and compare to the scent of someone who smokes Marlboro lights (for example) there is a very noticeable difference.

Re: On cigarettes

#72
The amount of cigarette glazing on the internet in the past 1-2 years is crazy to me. On Reddit, there are very thinly-veiled promotional content popping up more and more often like "taste test" videos comparing brands, and one that was a supposedly viral "come smoke with me at the park and I'll give you a free cigarette" thing. Gen Z and hopefully Gen Alpha have some of the lowest smoking rates (idk how vaping factors in or muddles those numbers), but it seems like Big Tobacco has discovered they can get around smoking advertising bans by using social marketing similar to how vape companies were sponsoring tons of influencers on tiktok. I hate it. Why are we letting them advertise this stuff that whole generations know is actually deadly and addictive. Even in this thread, there is a suspicious feeling of canvassers among the comments. Do not like...
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