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.

less irritating

Have you ever saw an ad like "our restaurant just gives you a mild food intoxication" 😂

They were even used to treat asthma at some point: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/asthma-cigarettes/

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)

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

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.

This is definitely not the first time i have seen this picture. I have seen it before the ai epidemic

I could never figure out how to do it. Though I had friends who always has the technique to do it for a laugh