in the 1960s American cigarette companies used to leave free packs of cigarettes in freshman dorms at the beginning of the school year because at least some of them would get bored and try it.

I mean that's not new - tech companies will still advertise "coffee on tap" as a perk to work for them

Hey with the added benefit of addiction they can't afford to leave the office now!

the whole idea of a coffee 'break' was created to pump stimulants into workers to improve productivity.

Who’s actually going to use these if they’re not already a smoker / vaper? Maybe they’re just providing them so people don’t have to get up and go outside for 5-10 minutes to smoke.

Yeah. I can't wait for my complimentary IV and catheter at my cubicle and 0 breaks.

I used to take smoking breaks without smoking cause it wasnt fair to dish them out to only smokers.

I don't smoke, but would still sometimes go out with my colleagues who do smoke.

Is there more footage of Hitler tweaking? Show modern nazis what their shitty "master race" looks like.

That's fucking hilarious, hitler was a tweaker

Looks like random addict from the street, just in less usual attire.

I don't want to lose money having to take the opposite of you. The likelihood they are actually just buying this at market price and don't have a contract is so low it might as well be rigged.

This guy gets it. My company almost does this already by making my Adderall script only $10

If Russia invades Finland just give them a crate of pervitin and they will be in Moscow by sunrise.

Nicotine is synergetic with amphetamines, double win.

I do miss easy access to amphetamines

Considering the dosage amounts of caffeine that seem normal to people now....
No.

I found this review paper interesting and I don't doubt that nicotine can have therapeutic effects but the funding source worried me.

Conflict of interest

Authors YC, XW, XZ, HT, YZ, JZ, and SZ were employed China Tobacco Anhui Industrial Co., Ltd.

The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

The authors declare that this study received funding from Technology Project of Anhui Zhongyan Industry Co., Ltd. The funder had the involvement in the study design, data analysis, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript.

Funding Statement The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was financially supported by the Technology Project of Anhui Zhongyan Industry Co., Ltd. (2022156), Science and Technology Projects of State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (110202201046XX-05), Startup Program of XMU and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

I've heard Meth keeps you on even longer, the Nazis knew that already with Panzerschokolade.

Yeah but there's always an Adderall shortage

A lot of the nicotine in products like these is made from tobacco. Some of it is synthetic nicotine, some is plant-derived.

I couldn’t find statistics but at least some companies have different product names for synthetic vs natural.

e.g. “VELO” is plant-derived while “VELO Plus” is synthetic.

https://nicokick.com/us/pouch-perfect/products/velo-vs-velo-plus

And here's me, reading that tech companies are feeding their employees tabasco and wondering just what that's supposed to do.

Nicotine by itself isn't any worse than caffeine. I hate that puritanical American bulldozers right and left, call nicotine pouches and vapes tobacco products. Shut the fuck up nerds. Pop a zynn and watch some TV.

As a nicotine addict, I wouldn't advise this. Making every one of us go cold turkey in one moment will be the end of humanity. Nicotine withdrawal is no joke.

I don't understand your fury to be honest. It's unhinged. So what happened to make you feel this way?

Well, headache medicine sometimes includes nic.. They would probably just switch it to something worse.

Yes drugs are bad, we should all have to rawdog experiencing the planet boiling.

What an enlightened take, that's positively upvoted — no less!

Fun fact:
The guy that coined the term Utopia, actually meant for it to act as a pun, for "no such place" or to imply it was a false dream.
Such as, people will use the mirage of a utopia to hide the very real dystopia that this path creates.

A Eutopia is an actually "good place". A thing we have not been working towards. George Orwell also called his society a Utopia as it was a false good place.

I imagine you would be fired and charged for destruction of property and then they would make you feel bad by having you apologize to your coworkers for hindering their ability to put forth more work.

I'm as much of a "caffeine is an addictive psychoactive drug" person as the next but nicotine is so much worse.