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Second line points out addiction, then goes on to ask why? That's a special kind of stupidity on its own.

I don't smoke myself but you need to know that cigarettes are super-processed crap. They intentionally add more poisonous shit to them. Even I like the smell of loose leaf tobacco smoked in a pipe, or in a quality cigar. The reason people first started smoking tobacco is because it smells good. But you're right that's not cigarettes.

Picking up girls and making friends mostly.

The rest is to get away from dancing/ loud music/ heat.

My ideal place to go out would be a location with no dancefloor just a bar and a smoking area where you can't smoke. Unfortunately the vibe of the smoking area just hits differently and no one can explain it. It cannot be replicated. It's magic in a bottle.

Tobacco is generally a pretty lame drug, but some forms of it at least smell somewhat good (e.g. waterpipes (though I think a lot of the 'smells good' is additives), or the old-fashioned smoking pipes).

I got hooked at first because as teenagers when we smoked weed we would smoke it cut with nicotine.

cool another post on Lemmy about not understanding addiction

I think Nicotine has a stimulant effect, so there is that. Other than that, yea, the marketing devils get to them.

Because drugs make you feel good?

If smoking isn't cool anymore then I don't want to live in this world.