Inspired by another question on this community about “the first time you drank alcohol”, so I was just feeling like I’m the odd one out here.
I personally have never smoked (neither tobacco nor weed), never drank any alcohol. (Parents also don’t do smoking, or drinking, or gambling so I kinda got lucky with the environment I grew up in, I guess…) Is that unusual? Gen Z btw.
Grew up in a house with 3 smokers. I breathed second hand smoke for more than 30 years. (Total, not consecutive)
I won’t ever smoke cigarettes, smoke cigars occasionally, (been more than 4 years, but I still have a bunch in my humidor.
I will say that after I finally left that environment, it took about 6 months to realize what cigarettes actual smell like on clothes from the perspective of someone who isn’t noseblind to the smell.
Good damn I didn’t know how I just have smelled to other people, doing smoke around other people who don’t want to be around it please, that caused me more problems than I ever knew
I watched 2 grandparents die of lung cancer. My mom has COPD, and has never smoked. I have had breathing problems since I was young.
It’s all because my grandparents smoked.
I have never and will never smoke.
Alcohol has too many calories.
Millennial here. Never smoked, never tempted to either. Don’t like the taste of alcohol unless it’s in deserts, so no temptation there. Tried weed once, also that is not for me. Heck, I even avoid caffeine most days so I don’t build up a tolerance for days when I actually need it.
Elder millennial. I think we were the last gen where cigarettes, booze, and drugs were seen as “cool”. Younger people seemed to have figured it out early how much of a fucking waste of time and money all three are.
Who is drinking because they think it makes them look cool? Drinking at home isn’t to impress others.
Groups of teenagers on a Friday night in the late 90s/early 00s.
I agree with you on the nicotine and alcohol, but you will have to pry my pot from my cold dead hands.
I’d agree with the “cool” factor for drugs and booze, and maybe it’s regional or class-based, but cigarettes always seemed trashy when I was growing up
I drink beer cuz look around.
I stopped smoking. I drink beer and whiskey.
Congrats d based
Millennial here. I like not being a public nuisance and having functional lungs, a liver, and what little of my mental faculties I haven’t lost to mental illness, so no I don’t partake
I’m on the Gen Z/Millennial border for reference.
I’ve done a few puffs of cigars at big celebrations with friends/family, but I’ve never smoked a whole cigar or used any other tobacco. Never really cared much for the idea, and the little bit I did try didn’t make me want to do more.
I’ll drink when I’m at a social gathering, but it’s rarely ever enough to get drunk. I don’t like beer, which is frequently the only alcohol offered, so there are quite a few times where I don’t drink anything. I never really drank outside of social situations before, but I’ve recently started to appreciate the taste of good bourbon, so I’ll occasionally pour some at home.
I no longer willingly consume cancer-causing substances.
Health is something you only need to lose once, and you’re life is forever changed for the worse.
And neither alcohol or tobacco products bring even an ounce of benefits that could outweigh their risks.
Plus, tobacco products cause you to smell like absolute shit, and alcohol turns people into idiots or lunatics.
And I also couldn’t imagine pissing away money on something so unnecessary.
FWIW, I was a pack-a-day smoker and drank alcohol, so I know both sides. I regret it in hindsight, but teens so stupid things, and that was my stupid thing.
No. Paying money to ingest poison is extremely unappealing
No sulphites from preserved meats either?
You know you don’t have to eat meat?
I don’t eat meat*
Now you do!
You know pesticides stay in crops amd we eat them right?
At least in the US, pesticide use is linked to cancer.
No fast food then either huh? Good on you.
Fast food is still mostly food. Cigarettes are pure poison and alcohol has negligible nutritional value (and I doubt that’s why anyone is buying it). You have a point but you’re being obtuse about it.
I’m not being obtuse about it.
If you want to be supercilious about not consuming poison (specifically alcohol here) which can be responsibly consumed to some limited personal / social benefit, it is on the same footing as fast food.
“I don’t ingest poison“ from somebody with a BMI of 50 is hypocritical yum yucking and isn’t a good look.
Edit:
Wait. Let’s do this the honest way instead.
OPs comment rubs me the wrong way because after my second kid was born I went through some shit and had a period of alcohol dependence. That was and is not always easy to manage if you don’t have an interest in abstinence. It’s easy to judge people for ingesting poison, which is objectively true, but it is off-putting to get a lesson on the virtues of health from people who can’t put down the controller, or the sandwich, or the vape.
Yeah I read too much into it and knee jerked. OP is phrased in a way that is sneakily general and impersonal using passive voice which may or may not have been intentional, but it read as high and mighty to me and that is irksome when I can remember a period of every day battles with the stuff.
I don’t because I like money, and I don’t think my life would get any better from smoking and drinking.
I like to get a little intoxicated and find the different headspaces the drugs provides to be very relaxing and fun. That said, I get a really good calming buzz from a cup of coffee and some particular candy (vespebol) these days.
I used to drink a lot, mostly because it was fun and relaxing to start, then it became habitual. I drink way less now, I like the buzz and mindset I get from a few beers, but I no longer need the escape that drunkenness provides and I’ve grown to really dislike it. Stopped drinking for a little while, then eased back into it and experimented with it for a few years. I found that for me the cost of drinking increases exponentially per unit and the benefits flattens and become costs after a few units now.
I only have tobacco when someone has rolled a joint with it. Had my first while cigarette at 29, I got a really good nicotine shock from it, which I loved, but my lungs hurt for days afterwards so I’m staying away from tobacco, never tried snus either even though it’s pretty huge around here.
Don’t really smoke much weed either, but I’ll have a puff if someone is offering. I like the buz and calmness it brings.
You loose a lot of money and a lot of life expectancy for very little fun and you smell bad after.
Also, you annoy people around you and eventually poison them too
Not worth it.
Quit self-medication years ago because it’s lethal, killed my whole family, and right now we should all be hoarding money to keep it out of the hands of the oligarchs and tyrants trying to seize our land.
You mentioned your generation so ill put myself as xennial.
I dont use tobacco at all. Never seen the appeal of it myself.
I have a beer on occasion and sometimes use wine in cooking.
I use weed regularly for sleep and shoulder pain
