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[–] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

lots of food products taste boring in the west because

  • we've been told that stuff that tastes good is probably full of additives and therefore bad for your health (think of all the chemicals!)
  • and because of the same christian mindset that got us the cornflakes:

Cereal would create fortunes and create multinational companies that we still know today. But Dr. John Harvey Kellogg , the inventor of corn flakes, did not care about profits. For him, cereal was not just a health food because it would improve Americans digestion. He believed a diet centered on bland foods like cereal would lead Americans away from sin. One very specific sin: masturbation.

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 9 points 23 hours ago

As someone who ate lots of cereal and probably broke records cranking it: he was wrong

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank god my regular unflavoured cigarette don't have any dangerous chemicals!

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Watch the road to wellness, it's about Kellogg and it's fantastic. Matthew Brodrick gets jerked off by a machine and gets a bunch of yogurt jammed in his butthole and at some point corn flakes come up. You know, proper cinema of a bygone age long past.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

*The Road to Wellville

Great movie, great casting, very funny.

edit: I forgot O'Brien is in it, it's ridiculous it's only rated 5.9!

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 11 points 1 day ago

Hmmm cancer scent.

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Welcome to flavor country

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah yes rhe typical "light the filter and smoke it from the wrong side" people.

[–] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

nah i think the purple thing is the filter ... the smoke goes through it and acquires scent that way.

[–] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago

The ash looks more like "ginormous filter" or random golden ring

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 165 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The Chinese aren't ahead of the curb here, they are significantly behind. Flavored cigs got banned in most countries many years ago because they did too good a job. I expect the same thing will happen in China soon.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 115 points 2 days ago (16 children)

One of the reasons they were banned was also because it made them more attractive to children and teenagers. That's also one of the reasons a lot of places don't allow fancy designs on cigarette packs and it forces them to show those gruesome pictures of throat cancer and stuff.

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Exactly, that's why vapes come in many flavours and colours

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[–] teslekova@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago
[–] wdx@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

unlikely. Basically all cigarettes are produced by CNTC or one of their subsidiaries.

CNTC is owned by the state and rakes in a lot of money for the government.

[–] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

The liquor stores in Canada are primarily monopolize by the provincial governments, which is for the best, but it does have its obvious negative externalities lol. I always make an effort to go to a govt store over a private corp if I can

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's a profit ceiling, though. And a lot of countries are finding out that the larger cost of cigarette usage is borne by the healthcare systems that need to spend a disproportionate volume of resources to manage the various health complications caused by a lifetime of smoking.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If anything it should be easier to kill a cigarette industry owned by the government, because the ones profiting are the ones paying the long term cost

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[–] Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

the tabacco lobby there (state owned, makes basically the same amount of money the chinese military spends) banned flavored vapes so the citizen take cigarettes instead

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Except cigarettes are a state-run monopoly over there.

The main reason things are going so slowly is that they can't bring themselves to stop making so much money.

The same institution that's supposed to promote the facts about the health-risks of smoking is the one making stupid amounts of money making and selling it.

If they ever stop, it'll be because they transition to other nicotine products, or shift to exporting the product to developing countries (which they already are).

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[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In Iraq rhey have cigs with two different flavor capsules in the filter, it was a novelty. I do remember carrying crushes at bars, in case you met someone who liked menthols. I'm glad I quit, but it was fun at the time.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I don't miss the smoking so much. I miss the social aspects. I met so many people just by smoking outside occasionally. Didn't even have to do anything. Just stand there and stuff starts happening around you.

[–] tio_bira@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

They aren't that new, on Brazil, you just pop a small bubble to get it mentol flavored, i used to sold a lot of those not so long ago

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want my smokes to make me feel like I'm dying a little bit, thanks.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Here ya go bud, 18 mg tar. I think there's an unfiltered too but I can't find it right now.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

I will pick those up next time I'm in Japan. I don't smoke, but everyone else in asia does, I found foreign cigerettes make a good gift if someone helps me and it would be weird to give money.

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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 70 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Flavored cigs are forbidden in Germany. Guess that's good.

[–] frog@feddit.uk 37 points 2 days ago

It is a good thing. I hate cigarettes and this post made me curious what other flavors China has.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I remember rumours at school that the strawberry flavour could get you instant addicted.

I doubt that is true, but I considered it a positive that people were worried about it.

Then the modern vape cartridge got invented and just like that the youth is back to paying companies to inhale poison.

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

This is great it's basically saying: this lung cancer tastes great!

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

So theres this american dude on youtube who cycles through China and the way he connects to locals is usually by offering cigarettes. Very fun videos; "Bicycling trough China, one cigarette at a time" was the first I think I saw.

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[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

cigarette

every bite

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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or just eat ice cream that isn't laced with a highly addictive substance.

No?

[–] Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

Sugarless ice-cream doesn't taste as good.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is that gold line where the filter ends?

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The future is NOW! Are you classified as human?

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[–] gray@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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