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Mickey7 @lemmy.world

9mo ago

The good old days

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Good old days when Mr Cig used to visit the lung cancer ward to cheer patients up
- Nothing better than a match in a high oxygen environment.
- This sounds like a joke, but cigarettes were in fact used to treat asthma at some point.
  
  Datura Stramonium cigarettes to be precise. That plant can give you a nasty horror trip if you consume to much of it.

- less irritating
  Have you ever saw an ad like "our restaurant just gives you a mild food intoxication" 😂
  
  Well, we do still say similar things about alcohol
  
  You gotta fumigate the ghosts somehow.

and more https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/doctors-smoking-cigarette-1930-1950/

Many seeing this are far too young to even remember when doctors actually endorsed cigarette smoking. There were ads in magazines and newspapers for brands of cigarette with the picture of a doctor and his reasons why this particular brand was the best one to smoke
- To be clear, when you say doctors endorsed cigarette smoking, a small percentage of doctors were duped into endorsing it and their recommendations boosted by the tobacco industry.
  I've got my Grandfather's old copy of The Boy's Companion published before the date in that meme, and it's very clear in its message that smoking is bad for you. They've known it was harmful to health since at least the 17th century, and tobacco was only brought to Europe in the 16th.
  The cunts who sent that mascot to the hospital fucking KNEW. (edit: or at least they would have if they existed, it looks like the whole thing might have been AI generated)
- They were even used to treat asthma at some point: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/asthma-cigarettes/

This would read differently in Bri'ish

Just thinking of Sleeper where Woody is told that smoking was found to actually be healthy and then given a cigarette for breakfast.

AI trash
- According to Gemini, this photo is 100% real because "The image caption states it's from 1948. AI image generation technology as we know it today did not exist at that time."
  Because we all know that's completely impossible to write a fake caption over an image
  
  I wouldn't trust those AI checkers fully, as soon as you get jpeg artifacts it will think it's real, I tested it the other week on an AI picture I made, the only AI detector that has worked 100%, even on potato quality, is https://illuminarty.ai/
- Pole which disappears part way down the wall. His left arm is transparent. The person isn't on the bed but behind it. The shadows are all messed up too.
  
  Also the smoke is coming out of the end the guy is taking hold of.
- This is definitely not the first time i have seen this picture. I have seen it before the ai epidemic
  
  Oldest one I could find was November last year. Have a link to something older?

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- I could never figure out how to do it. Though I had friends who always has the technique to do it for a laugh
  
  Here I am struggling to quit (sighs)

Wait till you hear about mr coke.

“Toxic sludge is good for you!!!”

That's blunt.

Ah yes... good ole-fashioned nazi Germany!

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