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I only drink a soft drink (beer or wine) a couple of times a year. I do not smoke or take any other drugs.

I dunno if I am lucky, but I never got addicted to smoking , but I do smoke occasionally and drink (I do buy alcoholic drinks but I never buy cigarettes). I never smoke nor drank alcohol before 18

I was smoking in middle school and high-school. Decided to stop around 11th grade, smoked a few times socially in the next few years, then gave it up completely. People I know who started around the time I gave it up are still smokers today. I now live in an area where smoking is frowned-upon, so it's not something I've had to think about in the 14 years since I moved (in my country you couldn't escape the smoke anywhere).

Tried weed three times in my life and each time the effect was the same: similar to drinking too much but without the feel-good part. Black-outs, confusion, headache. Guess it doesn't agree with me, so no reason to try it again.

I grew up in a country where having alcohol with your meals is normal. I don't drink to get drunk, just enjoy a drink with my meal (especially if eating something like a steak or a burger, a cold beer goes great with it). Had to adjust when moving to the US, it's apparently weird to drink at lunch here.

Tobacco, no. I was on a construction crew one summer, everyone else chain smoked, I didn't, then I went off to college and a week later couldn't figure out why I was craving the smell of cigarettes. That was a rough semester.

Alcohol, 2-3 units/drinks a month. A glass of wine with the week's fancy meal, maybe but that's about it.

Cannabis, wake and bake. I use it medically, but could probably cut back a little. Not much tho, it manages a life threatening condition well enough my case got put into the literature.

The cult I grew up in was straight edge without all the ethics, so like even coffee was a big deal when I got free of that one

Nope.

At least not normally. I'll vape in certain settings, and do enjoy smoking socially. But that shit is so bad for you, is unattractive, and expensive, that there's really no reason to consume it on a regular basis. It's like dessert to me, in that I really don't need it all the time, I'm too focused on going the OTHER direction in life, so that when I DO consume stuff like this that's fun and feels good, it's in limited settings and quantity.

That being said, I'm really really weird and not like most other people in a ton of ways. So, largely, to each their own, but this is just my way.

I'm a millennial, for reference, my parents (mostly my dad) casually drank a bit when I was younger (like a six pack of beer on holidays, or a beer here or there maybe a 24 pack over a few months), but now that they're retired, neither smoke nor drink except for special occasions. Also neither of them are gamblers (gambling is super stupid and I see it as intellectually cowardly. You wanna take a risk? Go try to do something powerful in the world that helps people).

I don't really entirely like the effects of nicotine, alcohol, or cannabis, either. So they're very social-coded for me. If I wanted to be out of breath, I'd go for a run. If I wanted to be loud and stupid, I'll just be loud and stupid. If I need to relax, I'll meditate. They're self destructive to me, and my life doesn't need more of that hahaha

Like everything, there's a time and place for all of these. And my day-to-day life and long term health is not that time or place.

I do want to emphasize though, that we ALL have our vices, and we don't entirely get to pick them. So I will not condemn anybody that has these other than pointing out why specifically I don't.

29 here. Kinda consider myself between generations.

I smoke tobacco, albeit very, very seldomly. About two packs a year, tops, plus a proper cigar roughly every quarter. Never vaped. Can't do weed, because my job is federally regulated and I get drug tested too often.

I used to drink rather heavily, especially during the pandemic - I'd put away a bottle of rum or vodka over the course of nearly every weekend. I still drink sometimes, but nowhere near as much or as often. Mostly taste-testing homemade wine batches, every couple months. It's been about a year since the last time I got pandemic-levels of drunk.

No. Never smoked. Alcohol tried pretty hard to get me, so I quit. Wasn’t fun anymore. Never really gambled other than pocket change, whatever I had on me was used and when it was gone it was gone. Rarely more than $5.

I’m addicted to a vape. Not the disposable ones, thank fuck.

I cut out drinking and weed because I can’t not use them when they’re available… weed is awesome, drinking sucks ass but is alluring despite its awful effects.

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

Smoking has always been gross to me. It stinks from a mile away and the breath of smokers is horrendous. Doubly so for weed. I also think vaping sucks. Most vapers just seen to not care about anyone in their surroundings. If there's a vaper near me at a concert I find it hard to breathe at times, on top of not being able to see through their Thomas the tank engine sized puff of smoke.

I don't mind drinking but I've never been a crazy drinker as I've not needed it to join in on the fun. I've not drank for the entirety of this year but that's due to my adhd meds and I've not felt the need to actively not take them just so i can drink one night.

I'm a millennial.

It's more common for younger generations to abstain. I don't want to do it because it's harmful for your body and mind and is addictive. I do drink for social reasons once or twice a year though.

Yes, both.

Nicotine: will hit my wife's vape or buy a pack of nicotine pouches during the week. At the weekend I'll buy a pack of cigarettes becauss I like smoking at the pub. Main deterence is how expensive it is but I feel like I'd only get a 10 deck at the weekend if they still sold them in the UK. Healthwise, living in the city is roughly equivalent to smoking a few cigarettes a day so I think I'm just tinkering around the edges.

Alcohol: I'll have a beer or some wine most days. More when I'm out at the weekend. Probably drink too much but I enjoy it. Social activity.

Edit - millenial

Yeah, I don't smoke or drink alcohol either.

I'd love to say that my choices are entirely because of health, financial, or even moral reasons, but honestly, my parents didn't, and that's likely the major reason I don't. I might still avoid it though because I do feel strongly about the health and money stuff... But that's somewhat negated when I acknowledge that my drug of choice is sugar, and it might eventually kill me.

I am what is now called millennial, but the term didn't exist when I was growing up.

Never liked smoking anything including weed though I do enjoy it as an edible on rare occassions (maybe twice a year max). I also drink beer on occassion (0-2 a month). Wine and liquor jusf upset my stomach too much.

I smoked for a couple years but gave it up when a new GF complained. I know I'm lucky af for this.... but I quit just over a single weekend. Physically it wasn't a big deal for me. I only miss the social aspect of meeting new random strangers. This was about a decade ago and don't have any cravings at all.

Booze? I used to binge drink in my 20s, not healthy mentally or physically, but once I hit 30 it felt like my tolerance dissapered and hangovers lasted days. Only on the rarest occasions do I have a single cocktail at a restaurant. Like maybe every 6 months or so.

Do a fair amount of CBD and CBN for pain relief, and around bedtime THC, but all that is edibles.

I used to like moking, tobacco and weed in a bong, would make my brain stop buzzing around, extremely calming, honestly it was just a way to self medicate not knowing I prob have adhd/ocd, I'm still super "lazy" about seeing a doctor and getting medicated, just swapped to vaping weed and nicotine. It doesn't work as well, can honestly be overstimulating compared to how calming it used to be, ocassionally works

Every tobacco smoker is gross.

Maybe that's a product of the old "every swan is white" kind of fallacy (don't know the name of it offhand), but I've never met a habitual smoker that didn't cause physical pain to be around. They stink, their clothes stink, their car stinks, their room stinks, and maybe their whole house.

"Stinks" may be just an opinion, but it seems to be almost universally agreed on (again, in my experience).

I've always looked down on them and judged them for consciously coding to smell like that, especially because all they get from it is keeping the symptoms of withdrawal away. They don't get "high", they don't even get "relaxed" (except in the manner of relief from withdrawal symptoms). Literally all they get is smelling like poison and a priority pass to the lung cancer ride.

Not to mention possibly causing mild symptoms to everyone else nearby.

Also everyone doing it now wasn't born back when they thought it was beneficial or even neutral. It's always been the most reliable route to cancer in everyone alive today's life.

So I think all smokers are stupid and stinky at the very best, and intentionally malicious at worst.

Given that there is absolutely no benefit at all, and given the definite danger of it to you and others, I deem smokers are just bad people in general.

On the more stupid end of the spectrum, they're more stupid than bad, but even the very "best" tobacco for is stupid AF.

So to answer, no I don't consume tobacco, and that is why.

Alcohol I believe is at least not as addictive, but is a bad choice for most of the same reasons. Typically they have to go more out of control to present an offensive odor, and if kept away from driving or sharp things, much less danger to others.

Their motivations seem more apparent since they do get high from it (drunk is basically just the word for a high specifically from alcohol). I also think that (not pushing this as I don't know definitively) alcohol does less cumulative damage over time when used responsibly.

I drank occasionally (aka like 2x a week at the extreme high end) for a few years, and while I didn't ever get a hangover exactly, I did black out once and started getting headaches regularly, so it quickly became more of a negative than a positive. Haven't touched it for over 9 years, except for one sip of champagne for a toast at my brother's wedding. And it was kinda gross in my opinion. Never did like the taste of alcohol, but being drunk was fun as a while as a kid, and enjoying doing something my parents wouldn't like (coming out of a pretty conservative household) was part of it.

But almost no one just smokes occasionally. Plenty of drinkers drink occasionally. And if they're not driving, they're likely being annoying at worst. I don't judge them nearly as harshly as tobacco smokers.

I'm fine with weed enjoyers. Whether you smoke it, vape it, or eat it, I'm interested in all of it. But it does still have an odor problem. Tobacco smells bad kinda universally (in my opinion), and that tar in it makes it super gross. I've never seen weed smoke "set in" to anything and make any permanent kinda smell. Maybe because I keep it cleaned up, maybe just because it's not as oppressive in the first place.

Obviously I'm biased in how "bad" the smells are in relation to each other, but weed smell does seem to dissipate more. In my case I dry vape it, mostly through a window so it goes outside. None of my shit smells like weed. The room smells a bit when I'm emptying abv and loading new, but as soon as it's put away it's like it was never there.

So anyway, no. I don't do either. And if you smoke tobacco (at least often or regularly), we are probably not friends. And you would definitely not be my SO. Smoking goes on the "ick" list for sure. Probably the textbook example of an ick.