/lit/ - Literature

>>12512427
Tobacco does not lead to reduced mortality rates, the fact that the majority of the documented oldest people to have ever lived were smokers clearly contradicts that evidence, and if examined, is predicated on terrible data built on methodology that seldom isolates for other factors most notably occupational workplace hazard, diet, BMI, exercise, and among other lifestyle factors. The participants in these studies were self-selected (whether by them or their surviving family) which inherently skew the results. It's just that tobacco is a convenient whipping boy, one that very little will raise any bones about it.
If you examine the pharmacological effects (eg increased KLOTHO expression, MAO inhibition, lower IGF-1, increased youth hormones like DHEA, and testosterone) it is likely that tobacco use increases lifespan.
My health and mind has only improved since I took up smoking. I plan on smoking 2 to 10 unfiltered cigarettes a day for the rest of my life.
>>12512457
You're talking about the roll tobacco in giant bags. That stuff is garbage and does use reconsituted sheet and stems. Quality rolling tobacco is near indistinguishable from pipe tobacco, and is comprised of the leaf of nicotiana tabacum only.

>>11151036
>>smell like shit
Tobacco has an excellent smell, and is highly rated, which is why perfumers frequently incorporate it into premium cologne blends. It invokes antiquity and masculinity.
Most women find the scent attractive.
You are confusing the smell with the old, reconstituted sheet tobacco and additive laden paper, that would settle in cheap fabric seats in your friend's mother's car as a child. This is where the "bad smell" notion of smoke comes from.
>have yellow teeth
If you do not get regular teeth cleanings, perhaps. You do realize, tea stains teeth more easily than does tobacco smoke?
>cough and spit all over the place
Coughing is the result of two things
1. Filter usage which deposits posit fine strands of cellulose acetate fibers into the lungs, where it can only be expelled through coughing. People who smoke unfiltered cigarettes seldom if ever experience coughing if kept to under 10 cigarettes per day.
2. Very heavy cigarette smoking.
>have unhealthy/digusting skin
Tobacco increases antioxidants and youth hormones (DHEA, testosterone, etc) which enhances skin quality and deters the accumulation of skin lipofuscin. This is why smokers often have less brown spots and generally live longer.
>have no stamina
False.
The World Anti Doping Association banned nicotine this year because of it's stimulative effects.
Not to mention, many Olympic Gold medalists were smokers but that isn't really relevant or an argument.
I will concede and say tobacco can impair peak athletic performance. However, it is unsurpassed for intellectual and mental stamina and performance. Profiler writer and composers have written at length with it
>addicted to "le cigarette after coffee/meal/sex/sleep is a must :))"
Tobacco and coffee are extremely synergistic, so that would be expected.
Sex is exhaustive. Understandably, tobacco would attenuate this.
Digestion takes blood flow away from the brain. The tobacco ensures the mind is still stimulated and peculating with brilliant thoughts.
Examining this, leads one to conclude that tobacco use in these circumstances is justifiable.
>convince themselves that they can quit anytime
Intelligent people can quit at any time. The withdrawal symptoms are no worse than caffeine withdrawal that leaves you with a bad headache for a few days and some mental impairment thereafter but then it's over.
The only people who cannot quit on a whim are low IQ
>sometimes are covered in ash or there are evident burnholes on their clothes
Confirmation bias
>are noxious and hysterical when in abstinence
Confirmation bias.