Skip to content

Comment on CVS Caremark pharmacies to halt tobacco salesparent

Comments

One can get nicotine through e-cigs, patches, or gum. There's no need to inhale a bunch of things that are bad for you.

Even if tobacco was perfectly healthy, it has other issues. It ruins your sense of taste, making foods bland. Many people dislike the smell. And smoking just one cigarette a day requires near-superhuman willpower. It would likely become an expensive habit.

One can get nicotine through e-cigs, patches, or gum. There's no need to inhale a bunch of things that are bad for you.

Yes. I didn't argue for nicotine consumption through smoking.

It ruins your sense of taste, making foods bland.

I don't think smoking one cigarette a day does this. Do you have a source for that claim?

Many people dislike the smell. And smoking just one cigarette a day requires near-superhuman willpower. It would likely become an expensive habit.

I agree that smoking pack a day is pretty expensive and unhealthy. So if someone smokes a cigarette a day and doesn't start smoking more than that, then that person is smoking a cigarette per day. Some who smoke one cigarette per day will start smoke more, some will not.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.