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Plenty of people smoke cigars on occasion, often in a celebratory manner. As far as I know, huffing paint (or pretty much anything else people use in a similar

Plenty of people smoke cigars on occasion, often in a celebratory manner. As far as I know, huffing paint (or pretty much anything else people use in a similar way) can kill you the first time you do it. It's a rather dangerous way to get high. Anyways, there's nothing wrong with celebrating a birthday with sugar and it has nothing to do with it being a widespread tradition that's already in our lives. It's because sugar has basically no adverse effects in small doses and it isn't as addictive as heroin or nicotine.

gerardnll 8y ago
You are not getting it. Added/free sugars are in PLENTY of foods and beverages not only a birthday cake. Don't you take a coke more than once a year? chocolate bars? cookies? Sauces? Cereals? Coffee (starbucks and similars)? food for babies... It's everywhere. And here, we are only talking about added/free sugars and not palm oil, refined flours, in general, bad quality ingredients (but cheap for the food industry). Eat whole fruits, vegetables, dried fruits, some meat, fish, etc... that's the easiest rule, go back to what we ate just a hundred years ago. Yes, you can take a cigarette, a beer, wine, but just be conscious that you are not making yourself a favor. And.. just one question, what if you find pleasure in good things instead of bad things that you crave for on friday night, etc...? We use drugs, alcohol, sugar, cigarettes to avoid stress, thinking/pain... what if we face the issues instead of avoiding confronting them with plenty of addictions? We also have sport to generate endorphins, the natural way of lowering stress levels...