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(10-12-2021, 02:15 PM)TygerTung Wrote: It is the only product which when the instructions are followed, will kill the user.
Exactly - yet in times past Drs prescribed it to asthma sufferers, & cigarettes were issued to troops during WW2.
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Because it used to be seen as healthy as well as pleasurable.
Remember the days of the three best things in life?
A drink before, and a ciggie afterwards?
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(10-12-2021, 02:24 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Because it used to be seen as healthy as well as pleasurable.
Remember the days of the three best things in life?
A drink before, and a ciggie afterwards?
Humans are definitely a weird species...
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the designers forget the cost involved in actually using the things.
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Despite the high cost of living it remains popular
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I don't think I have ever read drunk.
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Not sure it's possible, it certainly isn't with some other things. But it was just 'a drink' in the post so maybe one doesn't affect reading.
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I have done a few things while drunk , reading is not one of them.
Despite the high cost of living it remains popular