Rikudou_Sage

Eh, no, maybe read what nicotine does to your body and go beyond the negatives?

Why would people even start doing it if it didn’t do anything for them?

In elementary school I was doing a paper on Al Capone and there was the section with his early days which included “like every young boy he liked jerking off.”

Most likely true, though the sources were missing.

This, but unironically.

Additionally, it’s not true at all. Like, when I was a junior dev, everything was new and hard. Now I do stuff much harder than was the hardest I did back then.

Yep. For example during the Soviet occupation here, the Colorado potato beetle got imported here somehow and given it doesn’t have any natural predators, it destroyed potatoes like crazy.

Well, guess what? According to Soviet propaganda it was intentionally done by Americans to destroy our “paradise” and our food.

Everything bad that happened was because the evil imperialists worked against our paradise.

The country being so poor it couldn’t afford enough toilet paper for its citizens? Westerners! All foreign fruit being very scarce and people standing in long lines to get it, while the ones in the back knew they probably aren’t getting any today? Also westerners’ fault. Meat being available only for the few lucky ones who came early, or were friends with the butcher? Yep, this one’s on westerners too.

Propaganda is not the usual over-the-top stories, it’s subtle. Would you today believe if someone told you that Americans have imported the Colorado potato beetle intentionally? And would you, if it was consistent with everything you’ve heard since you were a kid?

You don’t. If it was as simple, no one would smoke. If tobacco didn’t give you something extra, your body wouldn’t crave it.