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Anon discovers cigarettes (Edit: Anon discovers addiction) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by LifeLemons@lemmy.ml to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It was definitely cool in the nineties. Maybe you just weren't?

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

I am so so sorry, but over 30 years already includes half the nineties.

That said, smoking still looks cool, even now, it just smells so bad it's not worth it

[–] mriormro@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I was a child in the 90's but I specifically remember me and my friends being grossed out by them then.

None of my friends as I grew up found them to be cool either since, again, they smelled like shit and were pretty gross.

Cheers on your weird, displaced ego though.

[–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I was a child in the 90's, I found it cool. Hell, I still find the "lighting up one last bent cigarette before going out in a blaze of glory" or the "smoking melodramatically in the rain" scenes in old movies to be cool tbh. Marketing, like nicotine, is a hell of a drug.

It's like Bender said in Futurama (in 2003 no less):

Viewers of the world, do smoking and drinking on TV really make me cool? Of course they do! How about committing crimes and violence? Again, the answer is yes. But do we really want our kids exposed to that kind of trash on TV? I say, absolutely not!

Cheers to your moral superiority tho.

[–] mriormro@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You're taking a very weird offense to me saying it wasn't cool. As I said, growing up amongst my friends, it was never seen as cool and I never considered it as such. Of course, it might help that we all had family members who were affected or ravaged by their smoking.

I don't think nor was it implied anywhere that I'm morally superior to someone who smokes or does drugs. Everyone on this planet uses drugs in some capacity.

[–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

No offense was taken, I though adding a little Futurama quote would show that it was all supposed to be in good humor. Sorry if I came across as defensive, offended, or otherwise offended you with my response. It was not my intent.

Was just adding my 2 cents as a 90's kid that the "smoking is cool" propaganda and marketing still existed, and was still effective.