A Boring Dystopia

in the 1960s American cigarette companies used to leave free packs of cigarettes in freshman dorms at the beginning of the school year because at least some of them would get bored and try it.

I mean that's not new - tech companies will still advertise "coffee on tap" as a perk to work for them

the whole idea of a coffee 'break' was created to pump stimulants into workers to improve productivity.

Hey with the added benefit of addiction they can't afford to leave the office now!

Yeah, I mean there were the amphetamines and opiates that they thought made people better workers too but that was just during periods where people hated reality and they realized the disassociation was worse for efficiency so now just back to nicotine.

Why can't we make our own study that says that the dopamine of watching a live hibachi chef makes us a better slave and at least get a flaming volcano of onion out of this?

Is there more footage of Hitler tweaking? Show modern nazis what their shitty "master race" looks like.

That's fucking hilarious, hitler was a tweaker

Yeah. I can't wait for my complimentary IV and catheter at my cubicle and 0 breaks.

I used to take smoking breaks without smoking cause it wasnt fair to dish them out to only smokers.

Less for the caffeine, more for stopping people from going out for coffee.

If Russia invades Finland just give them a crate of pervitin and they will be in Moscow by sunrise.

As a nicotine addict, I wouldn't advise this. Making every one of us go cold turkey in one moment will be the end of humanity. Nicotine withdrawal is no joke.

I don't understand your fury to be honest. It's unhinged. So what happened to make you feel this way?

@oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip @Krauerking@lemy.lol
@aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

First, I don't smoke and never had smoked (not considering the passive smoking from being close to smokers), the only "drug" I use non-frequently is alcohol (a vodka-saké beverage).

This said, your paternalistic implied thought ("drugs are bad, people shouldn't use drugs"; are their bodies yours, to begin with? Do you happen to have some kind of ownership over other's bodies? Who gave you this almighty authority, do you happen to be a Demiurgal Archon of sorts?) is missing the forest for the trees.

I'm barely knowledgeable about biology, but I know enough to remember about symbiotic relationships in nature, as well as phylogenetics. The plant responsible for tobacco wasn't some kind of lab creation, IIRC tobacco plant even predates us homininae, and this means there are certainly species biologically interacting with the tobacco plant, perhaps species reliant of tobacco plant (not necessarily because of nicotine, but because it's a plant which siphons nutrients and resources from the soil, displacing water and somehow contributing to water cycles).

The moment this Archonic hubris illustrated by your text were to render tobacco extinct, unbeknownst to you, other species would be going extinct as well, and this may include humans due to how food web is so interconnected in ways we're still trying to figure out. That's part of why we try to classify species taxonomically and phylogenetically, because this is also valuable for us to identify potential interspecies relationships. I mean, this is exactly what phylogenetics is about: study of evolutionary relationships among biological entities.

So, please, seek some phylogenetics and biology awareness before feeding paternalistic, bigoted anti-drug thoughts. Others bodies aren't yours for you to wish for control, let alone other species.

Mind your own business.

Well, headache medicine sometimes includes nic.. They would probably just switch it to something worse.

Yes drugs are bad, we should all have to rawdog experiencing the planet boiling.

What an enlightened take, that's positively upvoted — no less!

Considering the dosage amounts of caffeine that seem normal to people now....
No.

A lot of the nicotine in products like these is made from tobacco. Some of it is synthetic nicotine, some is plant-derived.

I couldn’t find statistics but at least some companies have different product names for synthetic vs natural.

e.g. “VELO” is plant-derived while “VELO Plus” is synthetic.

https://nicokick.com/us/pouch-perfect/products/velo-vs-velo-plus

And here's me, reading that tech companies are feeding their employees tabasco and wondering just what that's supposed to do.

I've heard Meth keeps you on even longer, the Nazis knew that already with Panzerschokolade.

I found this review paper interesting and I don't doubt that nicotine can have therapeutic effects but the funding source worried me.

Conflict of interest

Authors YC, XW, XZ, HT, YZ, JZ, and SZ were employed China Tobacco Anhui Industrial Co., Ltd.

The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

The authors declare that this study received funding from Technology Project of Anhui Zhongyan Industry Co., Ltd. The funder had the involvement in the study design, data analysis, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript.

Funding Statement The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was financially supported by the Technology Project of Anhui Zhongyan Industry Co., Ltd. (2022156), Science and Technology Projects of State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (110202201046XX-05), Startup Program of XMU and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.