What is something that can be considered as bad as smoking, but people still do it anyways?
What is something that can be considered as bad as smoking, but people still do it anyways?
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Drinking alcohol.
I bring this up all the time, especially with Menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars being in the news recently because the FDA missed its own deadline for banning them. They specifically mention the flavor bans are because children like flavors, WTF, you gonna ban a coughdrop-tasting cigarette but still sell me Cotton Candy Vodka? How fucking hypocritical.
Agreed, especially young adults who get drawn to it thinking "drinking is cool" or something you do when you become an adult, that, has to stop.
Beyond that, getting drunk has become a "fun" event when you're young or hanging out with friends. It is also so prevalent in movies and tv..
Alcohol is way more ingrained into society though, we've been getting drunk for most of human history!
Anger. People love to be angry. That especially love righteous anger.
It's extremely stressful and stress is not great for you. I mean stress like exercise can be, but raging out because your drive through order was wrong probably isn't.
Now I love that one, I do agree people need to be more chill these days, high amount of stress can really be damaging to health long-term.
Fast food and poor diet in general, soda included. Just like cigarettes, if you just smoke one or two every now and then there aren't going to be significant effects. However when you use it habitually over years it can take a serious toll on your body.
Sedentary lifestyle. Humans are made to be moving. Even if you're just walking 30 minutes a day you're OK. But a lot of people just move from bed -> kitchen seat -> car seat -> work seat -> kitchen seat -> couch -> bed. This is just as bad, if not worse, than smoking over the long term.
Risky sexual behavior. This is prevalent especially in gay men. Having sex with dozens of (or more) partners a month. You can use condoms and safe sex all you want, you're still probably going to catch diseases just from sheer volume. Chlamydia and Gono are the least of your concerns - those at least can be easily treated. Plus that's not considering the other things that usually come with it - drugs, staying up late, meeting in vulnerable places with people you don't know very well, etc.
Reckless driving. People texting and driving, or tailing others on the highway, tipsy/drunk driving. It can be a lot worse for you than smoking... all it takes is one small mistake to send you to space - along with any other lucky individuals that happened to cross your path that day
Excessive sun exposure without using sunscreen. Skin cancer isn't fun, and a lot of people just don't feel the need even though they're out and about in the sun all day.
Sugar
White sugar ESPECIALLY, just like the white bread, people, please go for
brown sugarjaggery, wheat bread, the white ones are worse for health and very processed.I can't even get unrefined brown sugar. Only refined brown sugar which is just white sugar with molasses added back in. That said, it's a myth that brown sugar is 'healthier' for you. The amount you need to actually see a 'benefit' still means it's horribly bad for your body's it's best to eat natural sugars from fruits and stay away from anything manufactured/processed.
I've recently cut out sugar and breads and all dairy. It's so damn hard...
Giving your kids unrestricted access to TikTok/YouTube shorts
Man, youtube shorts just keeps going, forever.
Social media. From a mental health and a privacy pov.
Def, always need to keep in mind to get some time off the computer, even if for work or educational purposes, just go and touch the grass
Doom-scrolling.
Life and the world isn't that bad. Like, in some parts it is, but people need to understand that you alone cannot exactly control everything on how they work. They're going to happen anyways. The media has, for decades, successfully ingrained people's minds and mentalities to believe everything must be bad by the minute and to always expect the worse.
But if you stop doom-scrolling for prolonged periods of time and realize this, things aren't as bad as projected.
Having sex with my ex-wife
Agreed. I never should’ve done that.
Alcohol is by far the most detrimental drug to both individuals and society and yet is the most socially accepted. Of course that last part is why it's the most detrimental.
Taning
I'm going to sadly have to go with Porn here, I think it has unfortunately become a very normal part of the upcoming generations young life as they grow up, it sucks kids of today are being exposed to these things earlier than older generations were.
Porn by itself is not dangerous. It’s often the misunderstanding and lack of education that causes porn to be dangerous: STDs, unintended pregnancies, misinterpretation of situations or social cues, even body dysmorphia. Religion is often to blame for this, but it’s really more than that. Parents need to take initiative. When you raise your children to not hide their sexual interests and teach healthy sexual boundaries, teaching them understand how sex works and when/where it’s appropriate… well then, porn is a age specific medium (adults) for what it’s intended, fictional indulgement. It becomes no more harmful that reading books, or watching a movie.
tl;dr don’t shame your kids for asking natural questions. find books or materials on age appropriate conversation topics. Teach them. and again I repeat, DO NOT SHAME YOUR KIDS, ANSWER QUESTIONS HONESTLY.
source: 3 healthy adults who enjoy life and understand the role of porn in their life.
I disagree with this to a certain extent, porn is okay for adults, but in general it can get really addictive, and so many underage kids can easily access porn when they shouldn't be there.
I am okay for sexual education and all that, but porn is much more than that, something bad, the whole industry is affecting the younger generation, all they ask is "are you 18" on such websites these days, kids can just say yes simply and access these things, that's why it's bad.
Not only kids, porn is like a drug, maybe not as worse, but still very addictive, I feel like we can surely have better forms of sexual educations than porn for kids man. And adults surely shouldn't just be jerking off watching porn, at that point porn is no education, you know everything about sex, what's more to know about from porn?
I think the bigger issue with porn addicts is how much time it can consume
And how bastardized their perspective on social activities and being in public can get.
Masturbate and consume porn too much, next thing you know, you're gazing at people's asses, crotches and breasts imagining all sorts of fantasies you'd like to do involving them.
People expect sex within the first date. It could get worse from there.
As an adult woman, porn is very beneficial to my sex life. So maybe the problem isn't porn so much as it is children's access to it.
That is surely good for sure, I am not against that in any way, but there are some young adults who are locked with porn which really is fictional and taped, and they can often be bad at real relationships, especially if they get extremely addicted to porn, using porn to help with you sex life is great, but it shouldn't get to a point where it's doing you no good with real relationships. Hope I am making some sense here lol