Only menthol smoking person I have seen was a Benson & Hedges (VERY expensive cigs in my province in canada, and my province has the less costly cigs of them all) smoking girl outside in college who was as white as bread and as preppy as possible. I bummed one from her once and and it was like ewwww...but I didn't say so. Then I gave her a dollar because of how much it seemed to have pissed her off to give me one. Just say no or something?
I don't see the racism or addictiveness increasing of menthols. In most cases I think they're made so you smoke LESS because they taste like tobacco and 20 sticks of Ice Cold whatever packs of gum. I just vape my e-cig now it's been 6 months woohoo. Everytime i'm with people who smoke cigs I'm like ugh, damn it smells bad. I now understand. But how come before you ever smoked the smell doesn't piss you off as much as when you stopped smoking? Weird huh? But I'm not like these snobby ex smokers who act all outraged by somebody smoking though. Fuck you, did everybody do this to you when YOU smoked?
After 6 months sometimes I still cough out greyish stuff, it's rare, but yeah 9 years of weed everyday + 7 of cigs everyday was bad. Now my throat is the problem, ciliary (small hair inside my larynx that produce mucus to help clean out the lungs (they grow back in the lungs too) and I spit more than I used to when smoking, what I spit is completely white but it's always being produced in my nose or in my throat, very sticky and difficult to get rid of. I'm on an antihistamine everyday to help sleep/make my suboxone feel stronger so I don't abuse it called hydroxyzine, it's a VERY sleepy kind of antihistamine, the old school ones, now the new school antihistamines, you can't get a script for, which sucks hardcore, because I need loratadine or dexloratadine during the day when I'm out of hydroxyzine.
In a nutshell, even after you quit smoking, you'll have lung, throat, nose issues for months up to a year even, that's what the nurses at my suboxone clinic say anyway, doctors are more surprised when I say after 6 months I still am a mucus factory though. But gone are the chest pains, the "lungs are cleaning up" chest pains, holy shit these are horrible, after 3 months they were gone, but they felt as bad as panic attacks chest tightening. Had to keep repeating in my head "this is my ciliary hair growing back" to get through it, oh and benzos help too
