r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 10d ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/blankasfword 10d ago

It’s nice to see other people who occasionally smoke. I have a disposable vape that I’ve been using for like 3 years. Once I took a cotinine test and came up positive and I had to answer a quiz about how addicted to nicotine I am and how it’s affecting my life and how my relatives want me to stop… I just told them it was a false positive so I could retake the cotinine test because the quiz was absolutely insistent that anyone that has ever consumed nicotine must be hopelessly addicted.

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u/Dopest_Bogey 10d ago

Ive smoked probably 6 times in my whole life and its because someone handed me a cigarette. Hated it every time but it just felt right. Last time was when I was fishing in the Texas Gulf Coast and these 2 Vietnamese guys walked up to us speaking Vietnamese. We didnt understand them but they motioned to their cigarettes so we handed them a lighter. They lit their smokes and handed one to each of us and lit them with the lighter and gave it back. Funny thing is they stood there talking for another 10 minutes before leaving as if we understood them. Good times. 

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u/Nat-Luv 10d ago

Polite sons of guns. That’s an awesome story. I wish my last smoking story was half as interesting. My last was climbing out of a window onto the roof to celebrate a good band gig before getting evicted the next day.

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u/monkeyamongmen 9d ago

How is that not interesting? What was the gig? Why were you evicted? Was your band any good?

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u/Foxy02016YT 10d ago

You have willpower worthy of a green lantern ring, that’s for sure

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u/blackgenz2002kid 10d ago

same man. maybe it’s age? I would call myself occasional since I probably smoke less than 2-4 a week or so. could also be the type of cigarette. I get like no urges after finishing a cigarette for several days

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u/UseEmbarrassed9171 9d ago

I only smoke when golfing or hunting. That’s it. I never smoke cigs or vape any other time, except for the occasional cigar. I just don’t have the desire

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u/Electronic_Flan_482 10d ago

I have quit atleast 6 times, id do good for a year or so then have one smoke out at a party and then I'm back to a pack a day by the next week. Last time i relapsed was a medication change that made me irritable and crave nicotine. This time I think it stuck since its been about 10 years.

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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 9d ago

I dunno how to tell you,but liquid in vapes is only good for 6months tops, after that it degrades in potency as nicotine breaksdown but also depending on the liquid used can become toxic. 

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u/Annual-Weird-6682 9d ago

It's good to see people who occasionally smoke? What a weird thing to say lol

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u/blankasfword 9d ago

lol definitely worded poorly. I was more trying to say that it’s nice to hear that I’m not the only person who at some point touched nicotine but didn’t become hopelessly addicted. I’m really all about moderation in most things. Things are rarely black and white. Soda isn’t particularly healthy either, but a soda once a month isn’t that big of a deal, but drinking 2 or 3 cases a day would be concerning.

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u/Sw1561 4d ago

A bunch of people I'm around have touched nicotine without becoming hopelessly addicted. I'm not saying it's not dangerous af, just that most people I know have smoked before, including me, and most have not become smokers

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u/Different_Target_228 9d ago

I smoke about 2-4 cigarettes a day, myself. And often quit with vapes, but Wisconsin just made that dumb.