So all those before the discovery of the obnoxious weed are what?what did they do instead, pick their noses?because that is more intelligent than sucking on a fag.I think we have a smoker attempting to justify his habit.Welcome to the forum..Xris

Lol, thanks. So you makes the assumption about the OP based on what I have written on a post?

I don't need justification of any "habit", particularly when I do not even really have this habit.

Every one needs to justify a habit or it becomes an obsessive disorder..sorry but you appeared a justifiable puffer.

I don't smoke and I'm not a real philosopher, so you must be right, smoking causes philosophy. They should put it on a surgeon general's warning. Philosophy has to be way more damaging to earning potential than lung cancer.

Many of those philosophers you mention also experienced a great deal of stress and anxiety. Smoking helps alleviate stress and anxiety.... although, there is another weed that is far more effective.

Is it a habit associated with philosophy or philosophers, or it is just a coincidence?

Many philosophers in history were tobacco smokers, Arendt, Camus, Sartre, Kant, Kierkegaard, etc and often have their photos taken while smoking. Is it a habit associated with philosophy or philosophers, or it is just a coincidence?

:lol:good one, Gosh!

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nicotine is a stimulant as well as a depressant i have read. maybe it helps someone but it never helped me, even though a smoke was the first thing i reached for at the least little sign of tension. it never calmed me down and i knew it and the lack of logic in that was one of the things that helped me to decide to quit. after society starting aggressively disapproving of smokers, it became a real source of tension for me to try and smoke anyway.

so the question is if they legalize that other weed and nobody is allowed to smoke it except in their own home, and even that is probably going to enrage the neighbors, what to do? i cant drink hootch, my stomach wont let me, and that and guns seem to be the only things left that society doesnt want to ban, other than a few activists. one can drink anywhere and not smell bad or burn holes in furniture or set forests on fire or make anyone else drunk from the fumes.

what if they make a law banning philosophy? or have they?

Many people have smoked. Philosophers are people. Do the math.