Smoking anything is pretty terrible for your lungs

From what I heard weed isnt as bad if you are over 25

Its like setting yourself on fire lol

But yea smoking anything is bad but it's a lesser of the 2 evils

8 million people on an island? Roughly 26% if that's actually true, I might be exaggerating somewhat.

I don't think natural weed is even as bad as cigarettes because it does not have all that synthetic stuff

“Not as bad” probably because that’s when your brain is fully developed. Still very bad for you though

Weed is mostly a danger if people who are too young and still devoping their brain use it, over 30 its not gonna do that much damage

The idea is the same: people aren't working.

I could be wrong tho

Like alcohol?

Like any brain altering substance, yes

I wont deny that it isnt bad but I'd be surprised if it's worse tha cigars

Woah is the rate actually 26%

Cigarettes directly affect the heart and lungs, which gives the 'high'.

it's also worth mentioning one is a stimulant and another is a depressant

alcohol is a depressant and used for a long time

If it's really 300k people. As I said, I might be exaggerating, the rough idea is still there. It could easily be less and still have a big impact.

The most dangerous part of the cigarettes is the tar, which serriously fucks up the lungs, i imagine burning weed probably make some tar too, if not as much perhaps

Honestly I thought NZ had a lot more people

Isn't a cigarette only marginally made of tobacco, and the rest is just tar and other stuff?

Other chemicals as well

Here natives use tobacco to cleanse themselves. Not sure how relevant it is to the conversation but

Tar is just a byproduct of burning anything, but all the extra crap in cigerates contributes to making a lot more tar then just straight tobacco

Holy crap I was wrong, 5 million. Where did all the people go?

That's my point, thanks for making it more clear.

No problem

Idk is New Zealand one of those places where it's very sparse

@2Lazy2BeOriginal It's actually near 300k.

The unemployment?

NZ is like a 1/3 of the size of TX. Also it's an island.

The welfare.

I dont mind people on welfare too much but if they dont have a job. I have a big problem with it

From lockdown, unemployment was near 150k in September. Obviously getting better now.

That's the problem we had with all the immigrants: they didn't have to work, so they didn't.

Man I hate people who take advantage of welfare

I hate the way a lot of states have it setup, so that getting a job can actually make you worse off than being unemployed

Like there is a lot of people on welfare here. My dad is a rents out houses and this one person went to our house to demand to change something since my dad got government money

It f#cks the country, it f#cks the family and it f#cks you too.

I feel it should be more of a gradual cutoff then just striaght cut all at once with increasing income from having a job

When my parents first came here, they were on welfare but now they aren't anymore