/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13569348]

Why do people who read books also tend to smoke tons of cigarettes?

[Anonymous No.13569349]

>>13569348
it looks cool

[Anonymous No.13569353]

>>13569348
it keeps you from diverting your attention

[Anonymous No.13569397]

>>13569348
because they tend to be from the Humanities, and people in the Humanities hate themselves.

[Anonymous No.13569405]

>>13569397
this
they know that they're inferior to STEM

[Anonymous No.13569412]

>>13569348
It help you focus like fidget spinners and chewing gum

[Anonymous No.13569415]

Reading causes smoking .-.

[Anonymous No.13569434]

>>13569348
I'm a reader and a smoker and I can tell you, I've been smoking before i started to be a reader, I started to smoke because it feels good asf just like any drug, alcohol, weed... You name it
maybe it's a trend, if you see, the majority of writers are smokers so the reader may get a impression out of it and starts smoking too
Or maybe they just enjoy smoking like everyone else, for me it's clearly an addiction, but I'll try to stop soon

[Anonymous No.13569447]

>>13569348
Cause smoking is like coffee u smoke u write and read better, especially on 8 hour reading marathons u process the information better. It's not a meme anon

[Anonymous No.13569481]

>>13569348
If you did either you would know.

[Anonymous No.13569488]

I started smoking this year bc it gives me something to do
& it’s a good way to start conversations with girls

[Anonymous No.13569494]

because we're more aware of how heavy reality is and smoking lightens the load a bit

it's also aesthetic

it's also about living in the moment and trying to optimize one's capacity to appreciate

[Anonymous No.13569511]

>>13569348
Jorge Based Borges said those kind of writers habits sucks lol

[Anonymous No.13569523]

>>13569494
That's a strong delusional cope right there

[Anonymous No.13569532]

>>13569494
You're more weak.

[Anonymous No.13569582]

>>13569434
smoking is terrible for you in every sense. stop it, faggot.

[Anonymous No.13569680]

>>13569582
you’d be surprised how little that scares you

[Anonymous No.13569703]

>>13569582
you say that as if every smoker doesn't already know that

[Anonymous No.13569717]

>>13569348
It's stimulating. I got on, jumped right off and haven't looked back since. Don't do it.

[Anonymous No.13569809]

>>13569717
I’ve been smoking 6 months and I still don’t even really like it

[Anonymous No.13569822]

>>13569703
>>13569680
He was trying to motivate and be goodboi badanons

[Anonymous No.13569843]

>>13569822
if someone said that to me I’d smoke to spite him

[Anonymous No.13569966]

Nicotine helps me do everything better. I never got addicted to cigs though, went through like half a pack a year. Fucking Juul got me though six months ago, and it's honestly worth it

[Anonymous No.13570025]

Everyone in my family did (male/female on both sides, using chewing tobacco, pipes, you name it), as well as some other students during later years in elementary school. I can't really consider it a vice, and all potential or aesthetic "influence" of writers who have smoked is secondary to actual experience.

[Anonymous No.13570384]

>>13569488
Give us an example of your smoking-oriented conversations

[Anonymous No.13570391]

>>13569348
I only smoke slim cigars. Big cigars wouldn't fit in my holder anyway.

[Anonymous No.13570393]

>>13570384
"hey you got a lighter"
"yeah"
"ill suck your dick to use it"

[Anonymous No.13570418]

>>13569348
monkey see monkey do.
it's just striving for the image of an intellectual or writer. you'll notice most people here are only concerned with that. not their fault the world didn't give them a proper culture and worldview so they have to roleplay (engage with subcultures) to feel any sense of internal stability.

[Anonymous No.13570553]

its a repetitive dopamine releaser and stimulant, compulsively consuming caffeine and nicotine helps with concentration and stamina in repetitive monotonous tasks like reading.

[Anonymous No.13570567]

>>13569348
Romanticization leads to habits

[Anonymous No.13570712]

17 cig a day i might have a problem

[Anonymous No.13570713]

>>13569348
They are dumb

[Anonymous No.13570716]

>>13570712
i used to smoke like 20ish a day. I decided to cut out smoking during the day, so now I just chainsmoke while drinking every night, which is usually like 10-15.

It is absolutely fucking up my ability to run and workout, i kind of hyperventilate when doing more intense exercises now.

[Anonymous No.13570719]

>>13569348
smoking cigarettes is based and intellectual

[Anonymous No.13570729]

>>13569348
Substitute for a personality.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.13570767]

Never cared for it.
Caffeine addict since 35 though

[Anonymous No.13570794]

Is 30 a good time to start smoking?

[Anonymous No.13570804]

>>13570391
cool mugs, where'd u get those?

[Anonymous No.13570837]

>>13570767
>since 35

You must be like 58 by now
Kill yourself, you whore

[Anonymous No.13571166]

>>13570767
1935?

[Anonymous No.13571414]

>>13570804
Except for maybe 3, all the mugs in my collection are made custom for me. Mostly I just take images of the characters holding mugs off the internet but if there is no examples of them doing so, I just commission a drawing.

I haven't ordered a new one in a while though, I should get on that.

[Anonymous No.13571420]

why do "people" on 4channel immediately buy any premise of an op

[Anonymous No.13571624]

>>13570384
>two people outside smoking
>"Hey do you smoke?"
>"Yeah, obviously"
>"Cool"

[Anonymous No.13571627]

>>13571624
wonder what it's like to be this unbearably cute for 4 years and then go downhill steadily for 20

no matter how hot she is, it's like starting life as an A+ and then going to A, A-, B+, B, B-, and so on. must suck

[Anonymous No.13571628]

None of the readers I know smoke

[Anonymous No.13571630]

>>13569447
Dare I smoke a cigarette?

[Anonymous No.13571631]

>>13570767
You're more in danger of killing yourself directly you dumb tranny. I'll blow smoke in your open "wound"

[Anonymous No.13571635]

>>13569348
lung cancer is /lit/

[Anonymous No.13571636]

I used to be a social smoker until I saw a 35 year old guy die in front of me because of lung cancer. I even have a pipe which I don't use anymore.
t. Med student

[Anonymous No.13571646]

Everyone used to smoke, so a lot of writers in the past used to smoke, so we see a lot of their characters smoke as well. As readers we're often influenced by the thoughts and actions of these characters or perhaps become more inclined to find smoking appealing as we enjoy antiqued mind sets from older books. Also it's fucking cool; walking behind a beautiful babe while she's smoking a cigarette and sucking up her second hand air is how i cope with my crippling loneliness, makes it hard to walk with a boner though.

[Anonymous No.13571653]

>>13571636
>social smoker
This term is aids. Just say you smoke occisionally, "social" anything is just how fags and roasties justify stupid habits. "Oh I'm just a social binge drinker" "I'm not a slut I'm a social dick sucker"

t. social masturbator

[Anonymous No.13571674]

>>13571653
Yeah, but it is kind of the agreed upon term for my past habits. Anyways I don't know how someone could get addicted to it; 2 or 3 cigarettes are relaxing, but at the 4th or 5th you start feeling like absolute shit.

>inb4 muh tolerance
I was a "social"/occasional smoker for 8 years.

[Anonymous No.13571698]

>>13571627
better to have loved and lost etc

[Anonymous No.13571735]

>>13571627
It be longer than 4. And it's better than starting at a D then working towards an F in less than a decade

[Anonymous No.13571737]

>>13569415
and smoking supposedly causes cancer
therefore reading causes cancer

[Anonymous No.13571830]

>>13570716
are you me? I drink about a half a whisky bottle to a full bottle each night and mostly with some extra wine because I feel it might be "healthier" while smoking one to two packs of cigarette each night. I read and go to work during the day and relax in the night to the point where I forget to walk and have to crawl to the bathroom but mostly I just wake up on the floor the next morning and the cycle continues.

[Anonymous No.13571917]

>>13569582
I know all that and I'm not phased the slightest bu it, and that's probably the saddest part of it all

>>13569488
>I started smoking this year bc it gives me something to do
>& it’s a good way to start conversations with girls
literal cringe

>>13569809
Then stop faggot, before it becomes a full on addiction. I started smoking as a dumb 14yo and drinking at 13 and it's been a bane since

It did enlighten me in some sense so idk, but there's so many more drugs you can take and not develop a life-long addiction to like tobacco

>>13571646
>walking behind a beautiful babe while she's smoking a cigarette and sucking up her second hand air
based, girl smokers are wifey material

[Anonymous No.13571976]

>>13569348
I only smoke weed and forget most of what I read the second I put it down

[Anonymous No.13571995]

>>13571976
>smoke weed
Cigarettes are based. Weed is for fucking losers and brainlets

[Anonymous No.13572014]

>>13571737
This may be true.

The slave in Greek society was well fed, he had place to stay and a work to perform. His body was in healthy condition. He had no worries because everything was arranged. He just had to work and follow the rules.

Now look at his master. Head filled with worries, constantly arguing with other masters over the nature of reality, worrying about survival and income for him, his family, slaves, constantly reading and growing fat, his hair balding, health declining.

No wonder many if not all of them philosophers are bald.

[Anonymous No.13572030]

>>13571737
This board gave me cancer so you might be on to something

[Anonymous No.13572284]

smoking is aesthestic, and the fags that guilt trip smokers are hypocrites because they never shame people who drink alcohol

[Anonymous No.13572295]

>>13571917
>I know all that and I'm not phased the slightest bu it, and that's probably the saddest part of it all
cringe

[Anonymous No.13572310]

>>13572284
>smoking is aesthestic
you must be 18+ to post here

[Anonymous No.13572314]

Because we're french

[Anonymous No.13572324]

>>13569348
I was able to stop smoking and just take 2 mg nicotine gum now.

[Anonymous No.13572330]

>>13572284
>thing that hurts no one but yourself
>thing that can give other people around you cancer
>morally equivalent

[Anonymous No.13572377]

>>13572284
Underage anon is right about alcohol being accepted and nicotine frowned upon. Alcoholics are way more disgusting than heavy smokers

[Anonymous No.13572391]

>>13571646
smoke a bit more and you'll stop getting boners at all, problem solved

[Anonymous No.13572402]

>>13572391
Probably fast food meat, antibiotics and processed food will kill any boner way faster than tobacco

[Anonymous No.13572417]

>>13572377
thought puritans didn't like books

[Anonymous No.13572421]

I go through 2 lighters a day and I never finished a book in my life

[Anonymous No.13572424]

>>13572295
But it's true, all the males in my extended family smoke and end up getting hospitalised every winter without fail.

After a while, you just accept the dry mouth, the loss of taste, the coughing, and the impending cancer and early death as just aspects of daily life, which is one of the most defeatist and sad things in post-industrial human existence

>>13572391
>tfw
It just kills me when I think about it honestly. I used to spawn a diamond rod over the mere thought of titties, and now I can barely keep it up during sex

>>13572402
>Probably fast food meat, antibiotics and processed food will kill any boner way faster than tobacco
Kek and tinpilled

[Anonymous No.13572440]

>>13569582
The struggle for pleasure is the struggle for life.

[Anonymous No.13572476]

>>13569434
desu the anxiety reduction effect you feel while smoking is caused by nicotine withdrawal in the first place. So that anxiety exists because of nicotine, and having a cigarette quells it for some time.

[Anonymous No.13572481]

>>13569582
>2019
>doesn't smoke cigarettes

Are you bullied, mentally handicapped, or both?

>b...but it kills you

And? Is life a contest about who lives the longest?

>its addicting!

It's not, as long as you're not under aged and you smoke in moderation

>its expensive!!!

Who forces you to buy a pack every day, fucking peat-gavel

[Anonymous No.13572485]

>>13569582
It brings me closer to death and I see that as an absolute win (Avengers Endgame reference).

[Anonymous No.13572504]

>>13572421
You're not suppose to smoke the lighter

[Anonymous No.13572510]

>>13569397
can confirm

[Anonymous No.13572555]

after quitting i replaced cigarettes with mate for reading and it's much better for focusing and relaxing

[Anonymous No.13572808]

>>13572555
only when is cold outside

[Anonymous No.13572821]

>>13569348
>he doesnt puff fat stogies and drink scotch while reading
Never gonna make it

[Anonymous No.13573048]

>>13572330
>alcohol abuse doesn't hurt the people around you

[Anonymous No.13573062]

>>13572555
Do Argentinians really do this?

[Anonymous No.13573107]

>>13573048
>equating emotional abuse with cancer
In either case, literally just walk away.

[Anonymous No.13573116]

>>13573048
Moderate drinking around other people isn't harmful. Unless you're covering your nose and mouth or wearing a gas mask, there is no way to not be harmed by someone smoking around you.

[Anonymous No.13573138]

>>13573116
>he says as he huffs brake dust and gas fumes between tokes of smog
2nd hand smoke might matter if you're a waitress in a comedy club for 30 years like in that commercial, but it's a meme otherwise.

[Anonymous No.13573145]

Hi

[Anonymous No.13573167]

>>13573145
Hey

[Anonymous No.13573240]

>>13573138
It's sad how you only want to hear what you already believe.

[Anonymous No.13573259]

>>13573240
It's sad that you're such a neurotic faggot that you're scared of smelling someone smoking a cigarette.

[Anonymous No.13573507]

>>13573240
that's rich, don't you think?

[Anonymous No.13573705]

>>13573062
Yeah and they insist on making a big deal out of it and make everyone else cringe.

[Anonymous No.13574787]

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