Coffin Nail Conundrum

[Jolly]

Smokes & Cancer

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-re-closer-to-understanding-why-most-lifelong-smokers-never-get-lung-cancer

[George K]

Fascinating.

Now they need to figure out the other stuff that's caused by cigarettes (heart/vascular disease, COPD) and go to CRISPR.

Please hurry up so I can start smoking again.

[Mik]

I hope no one ever uses this as an excuse to start smoking.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Coffin Nail Conundrum:

Please hurry up so I can start smoking again.

Oh, to experience the wonderful benefits of cigarettes once more. The glorious, pervasive, smell! The added fire risk! The cost!

So much winning!

[Catseye3]

Yeah, I'd never go back.

[George K]

Don't get me wrong, as @Doctor-Phibes says, it's a disgusting, filthy dangerous habit.

It just felt so gooood.....

I remember reading that nicotine is one of the most addictive substances out there. I would believe it.

https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/tobacco-nicotine-e-cigarettes/nicotine-addictive

[Catseye3]

@George-K said in Coffin Nail Conundrum:

Don't get me wrong, as @Doctor-Phibes says, it's a disgusting, filthy dangerous habit.
It just felt so gooood.....

Fun Fact: It doesn't 'feel good'; what it does is relieve the bad -- read, intolerable -- feeling of nicotine deprivation.

[Copper]

@George-K said in Coffin Nail Conundrum:

It just felt so gooood.....

Yes, it did.

And also increased productivity.

And was the perfect pairing with coffee or alcohol.

And it made you look cool.

Over 250,000 times I lit up, and over 250,000 times I enjoyed it.

[Copper]

What makes an individual's body better at repairing DNA is still up for debate and is likely complicated

Did he say "likely complicated"?

Really?

[Jolly]

@George-K said in Coffin Nail Conundrum:

Don't get me wrong, as @Doctor-Phibes says, it's a disgusting, filthy dangerous habit.

It just felt so gooood.....

I remember reading that nicotine is one of the most addictive substances out there. I would believe it.

https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/tobacco-nicotine-e-cigarettes/nicotine-addictive

Smoke a pipe.

[George K]

@Jolly said in Coffin Nail Conundrum:

Smoke a pipe.

Or a cigar (though that didn't work out for President Grant).

[Jolly]

Nah, cigars are lit and stay lit. Pipes are an exercise in patience. You dip it. You tamp it. You may have to redip and retamp. You try your best to light it. If you're lucky, it lights well enough on the first try. You take a puff or two, then you start to talk or you have to make a gesture or two. You take another pull on your pipe, only to discover the damn thing has gone out. You knock the dottle out. You dip it. You tamp it. You may have t redip and retamp it. You try your best to light it...

[George K]

@Jolly believe it or not, I used to smoke a pipe in my mid-20s.

Never could abide a cigar.

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in Coffin Nail Conundrum:

@Jolly believe it or not, I used to smoke a pipe in my mid-20s.

Never could abide a cigar.

I still enjoy the occasional cigar.

[Mik]

I do too.