Sept. 14, 2025
Bad habits
I don't understand why drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes are normalized.
People get drunk at every celebration. Why do they do that? Is it impossible to have fun without alcoholic beverages? They say it's for relaxation. Perhaps you should figure out why you are so tense? It would make your life better, which cannot be said about constant drinking.
Smoking is the most common excuse to take a break. A bunch of people gather and go smoking. People don't perceive it as laziness! Moreover, if most of the colleagues go smoking but you don't, you often feel like a black sheep. My dean of the journalism department said that if you want to be a journalist and you don’t smoke, it's time to start because smoking helps people to get along. He assured us we would know more if we smoked with someone important. Drinking, from his point of view, is even better for communication.
I don’t work as a journalist but I still have to face normalizing these bad habits. I don't like corporate parties either.
When I was a schoolgirl and later a student, I felt uncomfortable because I didn't go to any party and I thought: "Perhaps I'm just boring?" I realized that I wasn't boring, I was just bored. It's not interesting for me at all.
I would rather do some exercises than smoke at work. I prefer training to parties. There's nothing wrong with me. I hope some day people will normalize my choice too.
I don't understand why drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes are normalized.
you could also say simply "drinking and smoking", it's very common in casual speech
Is it impossible to have fun without alcoholic beverages?
same here, your sentence is still correct
They say it's forthey drink so they can relaxation.
grammatically there is nothing really wrong, I'm just offering another option of how someone might say it
It would make your life better, which cannot be said aboutunlike constant drinking.
People don't perceive it as laziness!
Moreover, if most of theyour colleagues go smoking but you don't, you often feel like a black sheep.
My dean of the journalism department said that if you want to be a journalist and you don’t smoke, it's time to start because smoking helps people to get along.
I don’t work as a journalist but I still have to facdeal with the normalizingation of these bad habits.
I don't likeenjoy corporate parties either.
It's noParties and drinking don't interesting for me at all.
I prefer training to parties.
Feedback
I think the explanation is that these are some of the societal patterns many people fall into at a very young age, when the only reason something seems worth doing is because everyone else is doing it. And then it just stays with them for the rest of their lives.Good for you for staying above the crowd and choosing what’s better for you. I also wish these things weren’t so accessible and accepted, but it seems to be heading in the opposite direction.
Sept. 18, 2025
I agree with you about the pattern. Incidentally, you reminded me of another annoying habit – when people convince others that drinking and smoking are what makes a person an adult. People often tried to insult me by saying I'm like a child, because only children don't smoke or drink. It's doubly funny because where I come from, these habits start in elementary school.
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I don't understand why drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes are normalized. I don't understand why drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes are normalized. you could also say simply "drinking and smoking", it's very common in casual speech |
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People get drunk at every celebration. |
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Why do they do that? |
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Is it impossible to have fun without alcoholic beverages? Is it impossible to have fun without alcohol same here, your sentence is still correct |
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They say it's for relaxation. They say grammatically there is nothing really wrong, I'm just offering another option of how someone might say it |
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Perhaps you should figure out why you are so tense? |
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It would make your life better, which cannot be said about constant drinking. It would make your life better, |
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Smoking is the most common excuse to take a break. |
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A bunch of people gather and go smoking. |
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People don't perceive it as laziness! People don't perceive it as laziness! |
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Moreover, if most of the colleagues go smoking but you don't, you often feel like a black sheep. Moreover, if most of |
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My dean of the journalism department said that if you want to be a journalist and you don’t smoke, it's time to start because smoking helps people to get along. My dean of the journalism department said that if you want to be a journalist and you don’t smoke, it's time to start because smoking helps people |
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He assured us we would know more if we smoked with someone important. |
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Drinking, from his point of view, is even better for communication. |
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I don’t work as a journalist but I still have to face normalizing these bad habits. I don’t work as a journalist but I still have to |
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I don't like corporate parties either. I don't |
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When I was a schoolgirl and later a student, I felt uncomfortable because I didn't go to any party and I thought: "Perhaps I'm just boring?" |
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I realized that I wasn't boring, I was just bored. |
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It's not interesting for me at all.
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I would rather do some exercises than smoke at work. |
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I prefer training to parties. I prefer training to parties. |
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There's nothing wrong with me. |
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I hope some day people will normalize my choice too. |
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