Edit: note, I haven’t smoked myself, so this is second hand info

Like seriously

Short term it

calms you

let’s you focus

feels good

can be used fairly consistently while leaving you capable to do work

is minimally intensive to use, just requiring cigarettes and a lighter/match/fire of some sort

Compare that to alcohol or drugs and such. The only thing comparable is tea/coffee.

Long term it

gets you seriously addicted

Gives you over a dozen different cancers and other diseases

massacres your lungs

And so on, not to mention what it does to underage smokers.

And I get why it happens medically, and I’m not denying it [obviously]. But it’s almost on par with those random creeks filled with brain eating amoebas. Like, if there is a god, why did they decide to design earth like that?