I really, really don't get it. Could you please explain smoking cigarettes to me?

Question

I actually fail to see the sport in smoking.

Answer 1

If you are looking for a logical answer...there isn't any (I am a smoker!). It is just plain bad and I wish I had never started in the first place.

The nicotine can produce a comforting feeling but it is also one of the most addictive drugs known to man and once started can be almost impossible to stop.

The health effects are a disaster!

Answer 2

Smoking was actually once considered "Cool", the "In Thing" and to some degree a status symbol.
A few decades ago, that started to change as the health risks associated to smoking became known to people in general. Especially, second hand smoke affects.
This changed the industry. Tobacco manufacturers add nicotine to the tobacco to create an affect or need impulse. Over the last few decades they have increased the price and the amount of nicotine as the number of smokers dropped.
Today, smokers are paying dearly for the actions of the tobacco industry. Higher prices, higher health risks, and a greater addiction to a higher dosage of nicotine.
The tobacco industry has been tied to the government for many, many years and supported by the government in its unethical behavior.
While local agencies are banning smoking, insurance companies increasing rates, no one is considering what the smokers that can't beat the addiction are going through.
The sale of tobacco products should be by prescription and without nicotine and made available only to those smoking prior to a specified date. The public sale of tobacco products that kill and are narcotics should be against the law. Think about the war on drugs, yet this one concerning nicotine is omitted and backed by the government.
Go figure.
Anyhow, most smokers these days want to quit, the majority feel it is in poor taste, poor opinion, smells, is bad for the health and is very expensive, in Texas a carton of cigarettes averages $40.00.
There really is an explanation, it ia a stimulant made publicly available. Like beer, wine or alcoholic beverages, it has an effect that is addictive in many ways. People turn to it for different things.

Answer 3

I agree alot with what Angie says.
I am not sure that I agree with this idea that nicotine is "added" to cigarettes,I think most of the nicotine of a cigarette is in the tobacco and perhaps the better tobacco is farmed,the higher the nicotine content.
Cigarette smoking IS an addiction just as drinking is with the one exception that getting caught driving after too many cigarettes is not illegal.
I have been addicted to both.
I quit drinking 10+yrs ago and am now 27days without cigarettes. . . .this time. Since Aug I have gotten 45 days without cigarettes and then 30 days without cigarettes and now my 27 days and I hope it is the last time I have to quit.
I tried several times to quit drinking as well but once I found the solution that worked for me I stuck to it. . . that being AA and I am using the AA 12 step method for stopping my cigarette addiction.
Both alcohol and cigarettes were hard to adapt to and to learn when I first started using them but once I "mastered" them they became an important "friend" in my life.
Regardless of what was going on in my life be it good or bad,cigarettes/alcohol were there to "help" me get through the situation. . .somewhat like a security blanket.
Thank God,it has become sooo very clear to me that neither alcohol or cigarettes are my friends and Thank God I am able to let go of them.
I have managed to escape the lasting effects caused by alcohol and only time will tell if I have escaped the lasting effects of my smoking.
By the way,Texas passed a $1.00 pack tax on cigarettes and in some cases,depending where one purchases cigarettes a carton of cigarettes could cost as much as $45.00 carton (10packs of cigarettes per carton). I know several people not willing to give up smoking because of the increase that are ordering cigarettes on line.

Answer 4

NO logic is involved in smoking. It is an addiction and it is hard to break away from any addiction.