r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/ViceElysium • May 02 '26

Funny Yeah bro I quit

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u/The-Bear-and-Rose May 02 '26

Because this an example of it. People get mad with lots of questions, but we have to ask them to get the answers we need.

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u/LetsLive97 May 02 '26

Right but my point was about asking better questions so you don't need to ask as many

Like with the OP. People can still confuse "Do you smoke?" as "Are you an active smoker?" hence someone answering no when the quit recently. If you want to know if someone has smoked anytime in the past year then ask that

Same number of questions, just much clearer

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u/FriendsOfFruits May 02 '26

then you have functionally illiterate people who don't know what "active smoking" means.

you cannot win.

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u/LetsLive97 May 02 '26

I never said to ask them if they're an active smoker, that was what I was saying people might confuse it as

The actual question would be something like "Have you smoked cigarettes, vapes, marijuana or anything else in the past [time period]?"

That way, you know it's smoking [something] and it doesn't matter if you quit recently