General If smoking was good for you, everyone would be smoking

[Pinlabi]

If smoking was good for you, everyone would be smoking. People can say what they want about conspiracies, anti-smoking ‘nutcases’, and what not. But consider that at one time, smoking was very much socially accepted and even encouraged. At that time, the majority of people did it, and it was actually highly respected to the point that even nonsmokers kept cigarettes to give to smoking guests. It was actually the anti-smoking folks who were on the fringes in those days. If smoking was actually GOOD for you, there would have been NO REASON for any of this to change

 

[Gizmo]

I tried it once but I didn't like it. I don't understand how people can get addicted to it.

 

[virtual-writer]

If smoking was good for you, everyone would be smoking. People can say what they want about conspiracies, anti-smoking ‘nutcases’, and what not. But consider that at one time, smoking was very much socially accepted and even encouraged. At that time, the majority of people did it, and it was actually highly respected to the point that even nonsmokers kept cigarettes to give to smoking guests. It was actually the anti-smoking folks who were on the fringes in those days. If smoking was actually GOOD for you, there would have been NO REASON for any of this to change

I stopped smoking in the year 2012. I never got addicted to it in the first place. The brain chemistry of people is quite different. Not all the people who smoke get addicted to it. Havi g said that, if smoking were actually good for health, then certainly a lots of people would start smoking. However, isn't it strange that despite knowing the hazards of smoking cigarettes, people still continue to smoke?