A Chinese man was disqualified from the Xiamen Marathon for chain-smoking during the race, violating a new rule against uncivilized behavior.

  • Pulptastic
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    5 months ago

    Smoke is bad but nicotine is an upper. Maybe that makes is less bad in the short term? Or maybe when helpful?

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      it’s also a vasodilator/bronchodilator. Not a good one, not one you’d want to use for performance enhancement, but yeah.