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Inspired by another question on this community about "the first time you drank alcohol", so I was just feeling like I'm the odd one out here.

I personally have never smoked (neither tobacco nor weed), never drank any alcohol. (Parents also don't do smoking, or drinking, or gambling so I kinda got lucky with the environment I grew up in, I guess...) Is that unusual? Gen Z btw.

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[-] SCmSTR 2 points 4 days ago

Nope.

At least not normally. I'll vape in certain settings, and do enjoy smoking socially. But that shit is so bad for you, is unattractive, and expensive, that there's really no reason to consume it on a regular basis. It's like dessert to me, in that I really don't need it all the time, I'm too focused on going the OTHER direction in life, so that when I DO consume stuff like this that's fun and feels good, it's in limited settings and quantity.

That being said, I'm really really weird and not like most other people in a ton of ways. So, largely, to each their own, but this is just my way.

I'm a millennial, for reference, my parents (mostly my dad) casually drank a bit when I was younger (like a six pack of beer on holidays, or a beer here or there maybe a 24 pack over a few months), but now that they're retired, neither smoke nor drink except for special occasions. Also neither of them are gamblers (gambling is super stupid and I see it as intellectually cowardly. You wanna take a risk? Go try to do something powerful in the world that helps people).

I don't really entirely like the effects of nicotine, alcohol, or cannabis, either. So they're very social-coded for me. If I wanted to be out of breath, I'd go for a run. If I wanted to be loud and stupid, I'll just be loud and stupid. If I need to relax, I'll meditate. They're self destructive to me, and my life doesn't need more of that hahaha

Like everything, there's a time and place for all of these. And my day-to-day life and long term health is not that time or place.

I do want to emphasize though, that we ALL have our vices, and we don't entirely get to pick them. So I will not condemn anybody that has these other than pointing out why specifically I don't.

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