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1. yousif+98[view] [source] 2023-04-21 07:20:58
>>asim+(OP)
I will add, the fasting from food and water is the easy part. The more important fast is fasting from everything that is bad -- cursing, backbiting, lying, etc -- and from your own desires. All these things are things you shouldn't do anyway, but this is a time to refresh commitment to not doing those things.

As the Quran says: "Oh, you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you may learn piety and righteousness" [Quran 2:183]

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2. theobe+a91[view] [source] 2023-04-21 14:50:16
>>yousif+98
No smoking all day is a big deal for many Muslims in the Middle East. One year I was living in Cairo during Ramadan, and each day when it got close to the sunset call to prayer (which heralds the end of the fast), it seemed like all the cab drivers had cigarettes in hand, waiting eagerly to light up.
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3. thurid+tg1[view] [source] 2023-04-21 15:18:56
>>theobe+a91
It is a shame that it didn't lead them to stop smoking
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4. H8cril+eO1[view] [source] 2023-04-21 17:28:19
>>thurid+tg1
People underappreciate how addictive nicotine is. I've been an addict for 15 years and I quit so many times, sometimes for longer than a year.

The new smoking inventions only make it worse because they allow for much much higher dosages. I've seen teens smoking what amounts to 10 packs a day worth of nicotine. And they didn't have to chain smoke for 12 hours to achieve that.

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5. girish+FT1[view] [source] 2023-04-21 17:51:20
>>H8cril+eO1
What new smoking inventions? Genuinely interested.
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6. ylere+9Z1[view] [source] 2023-04-21 18:17:06
>>girish+FT1
Nicotine Vapes - Look at the effective dosage of JUULs capsules for example [0]. This combined with the ease of use, the removal of the (unpleasant) smoke, increased social acceptance (often indoors too) and a huge advertising campaign deliberately targeting teens [1] created a lot of new smokers/nicotine addicts (and converted some) that smoke more often and at much higher dosages.

[0] https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/01/416371/juul-delivers-subst...

   The research found that blood nicotine concentrations in the JUUL group (136.4 ng/ml) was eight times higher than e-cigs group (17.1 ng/ml) and 5.2 times higher than cigarettes (26.1 ng/ml).
[1] https://truthinitiative.org/research-resources/emerging-toba...
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