Well, I rarely smoked. Only up to about 10 to 20 times in my entire life since I was a 23 year old till now. And because I saw the effects of smoking in a house with pets around, I decided to quit there and then. I don't want to harm animals, physically, or psychologically, just because a mere human wants to smoke, or ends up to be addicted which harms the animals their wellbeing and health.
Cats for example can smell about 10-times better then humans can.. And if I can hardly stand the smell of smoke.. Well I wonder what goes through the poor animals' their minds... You know why I started to smoke? Because I was convinced (by bad people repeating nasty statements, over and over!) that I was suffering from Halitosis aka bad breath. So in the end, I wanted to get my revenge, and let them feel what real stench is supposed to be like. A damn bad smell like cigarette smoke, or worse a havana, is generally accepted as something to not complain about that much.. But people who DO suffer from chronic bad breath, they got accused of it all the time, whilst they can't help it the least of all. It's not just something that has to do with lazyness, or setting wrong priorities on hygene issues.. In my case my dental stuff was severely eroded (nerves were irritating in contact with air/fluid/hot edible stuff/sweet edibles/etc.
I had undergone 2 years of letting doctors repair my dental shortcomings, to what it is today. And still sometimes some people dare to complain to me about bad breath. And that after all I had gone through! Do you get it? That's why I started to hate smoking. Yet I had no valid point of arguing about it, until I saw animals suffer due to people who wish to have a rotten breath on purpose of remaining addicted, spending money to billionairs who don't care about health and wellbeing for customers at all! It's just like with alcohol.. It's all about wasting money!!
If you wanna be addicted so much, go play a favorite game. Go take photographs, Go out for a walk, or to cycle some route for an hour or more.. Do as you please, unless you bother other people, ánd animals their wellbeing. Ofcourse, even athletes can die at a rather young age. But why "ask" for it by raising the odds against us as being a smoker?? I have seen X-ray pictures of lung-cancer patients.. I have heard stories of people gurgling in their own misery caused by prolonged unstoppable smoking habbits..
We all die. But why bother everybody with your own downfall? If you really wish to waste your life, go ahead! But do not bother general health of living beings around you in the process of doing so, is my advice!
Here I come again with an example as being an autist: My sense of smell is more advanced then most people I know, in most cases. Especially things like exhaust-fumes make me dizzy, and light-headed. To breath that, and the likes of smoke hanging around you, when you pass by somebody who is smoking him/herself... Truly disgusting!! And then the bad taste in your own mouth.. If you can stand it, it really makes you long for superhot chewing-gum or instantly brushing your teeth, and scraping the tongue, plus taking a non-alcoholic based mouthwash. And speaking of the latter, even then people complained about a strange (hospital/dentist like?) smell.. People always tend to crack down on somebody, who's considered a legal target of blame, like people with low self-esteem, like me. (because of nasty things said/done to me in my highschool-period..) So to the statement that only people with low-self esteem do smoke.. I'd say: Absolutely true! It is a wish to belong to a group of people like you. Or to set a difference to what you were known to be. (Like rebelling to your parents, is a widely known fact amongst teenagers who start smoking, etc...) And sometimes people gruesomely "fall" into the habbit by parents setting the wrong example... If you want to ruïn your own health, or that of your girl/boyfriend/wife/husband/etc. so much.. Fine.. But keep that for the one or two or group of your belonging to... How dare you messing with the precious health of the future generations of life on earth?? It's not worth the money, not the declining health, not anything!! There is NO valid excuse to start smoking/drinking up till addiction or worse.. Don't put your beloved pets/children/loved ones on the bandwagon, sending them through a hellish health for a future.... If you smoke, please do consider to stop. It's all between the ears.. It can continue because you in your own mind, decide to keep on going.. Nicothene? Hah! Nearly everybody knows that too much is bad for health! Please learn from all what people have said here.. Smoking is NOT making you a tough-guy. It doesn't give you popularity on the long term. All your friends of the past, turn your back on you except a select few, when you lay around taking your last breath... Especially if you went to be sick of it for a long long time, before you passed on... So to all who smoke: Good luck quiting! And do all a favor; Deny the big billies their billions!!