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Fortunately, in this day and age, where I live, smoking has gone so much out of fashion that I can literally spend days without detecting the merest whiff of the stuff. And God knows 'm paranoid about staying away from tobacco smells - again for fear of craving again.

This is great. I never thought I’d live to see a time and place where tobacco is virtually absent from normal society.

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Yeah, absolutely, which has made it less common but far more noticable.

Quick NZ smoking History

  • 1876 The first building in the world to have a smoke-free policy was the Old Government Building
    (This policy was enacted over concerns about the threat of fire, as it was the second largest wooden building in the world.)

  • 1963 Smoking adverts banned from TV and radio

  • 1990 smoking illegal in cars carrying persons under 18

  • 1997 Ban sales of tobacco products to anyone under 18-years-old (previously 16)
    Ban sales of cigarettes in packs of less than 20

  • 2004 The amendment act to 1990 when New Zealand became the third country in the world to make all indoor workplaces including bars, casinos and restaurants etc smoke-free.

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Oh wow, NZ more forward-thinking at an earlier time than the Nazis (well, for tobacco anyway) :slight_smile:

I’m not sure when Bhutan become smoke free, but I believe they are the only/first “smoke free” country.

NZ aiming for 2025, so we are still a few years behind.

Lack of popularity of smoking as you mentioned will definitely help.
I am assuming that is all tobacco smoking and not Vaping though

There are a lot of barristas, millennials and hipsters in NZ
:wind_face:

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Quiting vaping was much easier than quiting smoking for me.

It is weird though, because doesn’t vaping normally have waaay more nicotine than cigarettes?

It’s not the same delivery. With cigarettes, each time you light one up, you get a huge spike of nicotine in your bloodstream - and essentially you keep smoking to get that hit. With vaping, it slowly rises then stays up as long as you vape - which is part of the reasons why vapers can’t seem to stop all day long. The level is the same on average, but cruclally you don’t get the spikes, so your body gets used to getting more kicks without the hits.

Good grief
 I’m on the market for a small wearable camera that has a wider angle lens than my DJI Osmo Pocket. And sure enough, I immediately fall into the market segment for selfies for fucking youtubers (sorry
 “content creators”).

So I’m forced to watch those awful channels to get an idea of what a camera is like, and it’s terrible: they all seem to copy each other - dudes and dudettes going “WHAZZUP YOUTUBE!!! IT’S ME YOUR HOST GREATHOTZZ96 - DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE!!!” with clothing and hairdos that make disco look boring, and so many pointless body movements you’d swear they have some motor problem or something. It’s like watching a bunch of monkeys in a cage trying to outdo one another.

Not to mention, the technical reviews are quite monkey-level too. I don’t even know why I bother :frowning:

They’re paid for that. The mind boggles


You could infiltrate and subvert to change the entire thing.

Get a man bun, and start making monkey gesture videos, BUT include actual useful technical information. The other influencers would see something new and try to copy it. Hopefully a self feeding cycle of useful information wrapped in WAZ-UP would ensue.

Also, don’t forget to subscribe for more useful tips and lifehacks.

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Just dislike the videos, then everybody will know to avoid them :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

“YouTube today announced its decision to make the “dislike” count on videos private across its platform”

Basically you can dislike a video, but you can’t see if others have disliked it.
So of it is a spammy video our just shit content, you have to find out for yourself.

Just another reason to hate YouTube.

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I don’t feed Google.

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Lol I sent that too a few coworkers other day

For some reason borg is the reference they all make


 I just don’t understand why the borg never went full replicator grey goo, better in every conceivable way

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This is very disheartening at a glance until you consider that 24% of folks are ready and willing. I feel like entire industries are dedicated to smaller groups. :man_shrugging:

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I think it’s pretty great

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I wish the full report wasn’t behind a paywall.

Honestly, that chart and numbers, mean nothing to me unless I know the source (group that was asked) statistics.

Was it 100 granny’s they asked? Or 50 college kids?

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or 100 college grannies!

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Fail video

Part was supposed to have cooled down to self release, but it apparently had other plans

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