u/Bnedem

Vaping in the past has been an amazing tool to help me quit smoking tobacco. Until earlier this year, I had not touched a cigarette for 9 months. Instead, I would vape. And I would vape very little. Like, 8 times a day, 10 hits a time.

I've recently been reading horror stories about vaping. So much so, that vaping stopped being an option as a smoking cessation tool.

To get to the point. Here's the question. What do you guys think is the less unhealthy alternative:

- Smoking an average of 15 cigarettes a day, or:

- Vaping 8 times a day, 10 hits a time.

If it were possible to replace my smoking habit with the above vaping routine, would that be something you would advise me to go for?

I'm in my late-30s, and I've been smoking for 20+ years.

I'm now rewatching season 2 of The Sopranos, and it makes The Wire seem incoherent. And I love The Wire.

But The Sopranos is just out of this world. It didn't just commit TV to this entirely new standard, it set the standard impossibly high. Nothing that has come after it has been able to do what Sopranos does. Game of Thrones feels soapy compared to the better seasons of Sopranos. The Wire feels at moments amateurish.

In terms of the quality of the writing of dialogue, characters and plot, the directing and acting, and the world-building, The Sopranos is the Citizen Kane of drama TV.

Obviously, all of these films are very violent. But they tend to be pretty blood-less or cartoonish. What are some movies from this genre and period that are genuinely 'brutal'. 1983's Duel to the Death comes closest to the sort of cinematic violence I'm looking for. Chiba's The Street Fighter also fits. The Japanese Samurai films of the period tend to be gruesome (Baby Cart), but they aren't Kung Fu.