• m_f
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    16 hours ago

    “Reduces flesh” is such odd wording. Whose flesh? What flesh?

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      10 hours ago

      What flesh?

      I expect that they’re referencing this:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_smoking_for_weight_loss

      Cigarette smoking for weight loss is a weight control method whereby one consumes tobacco, often in the form of cigarettes, to decrease one’s appetite. The practice dates to early knowledge of nicotine as an appetite suppressant.

      Tobacco smoking was associated with appetite suppression among Pre-Columbian indigenous Americans and Old World Europeans.[1] For decades, tobacco companies have employed these connections between slimness and smoking in their advertisements, mainly in brands and advertisements targeting women.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      They mean the nicrotic flesh rotting off later in life, getting a foot or a leg amputated is the fastest way to loose weight after all. Worked a year in a ward for smoking patients, the smell is so haunting…

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      14 hours ago

      They seem to imply that if instead of eating a snack you have a cigarette, then you’ll lose weight

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        13 hours ago

        Yeah, “flesh” is just such weird wording though. Like saying “reduces meat”