Alcohol, cigarettes, vices

[Tyr]

When did it start being cool to smoke again? For most of my teenage years it was always a dirtball thing smoking, but now I hear my 16 year old pseudo-hipster nephew is doing it with his friends and its baffling. Don't get me wrong, he can do what he likes. I'm not judging in a moral sense, but more in the way one judges another in their taste for food.

Fir srs question, what does one get out of cigarettes besides the addiction?

It relaxes and calms nerves the first weeks or so you start smoking, then as it becomes more addictive it becomes less effective (hence why you smoke more cigs, to gain the same effect). That's at least what I was told by the doctor and two smokers.

I saw this "in action" personally by watching my grandma who has smoked all her life just going straight cold turkey because she didn't get a kick out of it anymore anyway. My mom unfortunately goes back to it, but she's incredibly polite and goes everything out of her way not to let the smoke harm anyone but herself.