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?
Hmmm you’re buying the hype which is percolating around due to the most straight edge/drug tested man alive cult of crypto guys who get high off the gas station substances. Nicotine makes you incredibly crabby and evil if you use it regularly, because you get cravings in your sleep which makes you fucking tired, and during the day you can basically time when the cigs guy around you will be in super evil mode if he hasn’t had a break. It’s a devil’s contract for restaurant workers because people KNOW you need the breaks or ELSE lmao, but they can use it like a carrot too so it goes both ways. Plus coffee releases the same enzyme that burns thru it so together they’re like crack. I like to get some good tobacco and go through all of it in a couple weeks and forget about it for a few years. But Mao is right smoking bad. “Mao smoking gif bad” - Mao