Genuine question then, how's the attitude there towards smokers? I was never in a social situation when someone was looked down or chastized for wanting to smoke. Generally smoking people are also respectful, so they will stay away from smoking, asking permission to do it in your car, make sure the smoke doesn't blow in your face and apologize if it happens by accident and the likes, so the point is not that smoking people are assholes, they do take their precautions to not inconvenience you. But I don't remember having ever been in a situation where people announcing they go outside to smoke is sighed upon with a look of contempt on the face, or people are politely called out on it, never seen or heard about a boss saying "well, maybe if you didn't take up the bad habit of smoking, you wouldn't need to have a cigarette break, frankly I don't see why a smoker deserves an additional break and a non-smoker doesn't".
I mean, it's a live and let live situation - smokers try to not inconvenience other people, and non smokers don't chastise them for smoking or don't bring up "hey, how about quitting?". I never got the perception that smokers feel ashamed of their habit and try to do it in "secret" for the fear of being looked the way you would look at a meth addict.
There's Casinos that allow indoor smoking and nobody complains about this. But also, they're highly ventilated and are buildings that allow more open space. The smoke still lingers as is there, but people don't complain, as long as they're not smoking in the buffet or restaurant. And that's not even including the pretty laughable Non-Smoking sections that are not enclosed.
But, not all casinos are the same, structure wise. But I do find it interesting how they can get away with indoor smoking because of Ventilation and the amount of space that is Open and more Air can pass through, so the smoke wont be collecting.
Doesn't stop the person from smoking right next to you, which is where I have seen some people wear masks, while they have an oxygen tank playing the machine, sitting next to someone smoking and the air conditioner blows the smoke from the cig right by their face...
Frankly, why anyone starts smoking nowadays (or even 10-20 years ago) is beyond my comprehension
Beats me as well. You're being taught it's bad. You notice it's expensive. You notice how it's forbidden everywhere, you see people in the middle of winter getting their coats and go outside to smoke and freeze in the process. Why? is peer pressure still that strong among young kids? do they see other kids smoking and think it's cool and they're dared to try it? they have parents who smoke and think that if dad and mom do it, it can't be that bad?
I see it because people can and will do stuff regardless of the consequences and risks involved.
Think about this too, what did they invent that is now a concern because those "Cool kids" whom used to smoke cigs, now turned to the new trend and invention....E-cigs, which were marketed the exact same way Cigarettes were, they're a "less risky" alternative to cigarette smoke, and have nice tasty flavors, and your blowing vapor not smoke into the atmosphere.
The only way to smoke, before the commercialization and mass production of cigarettes, was to roll your own. It's easy to figure out how more people started to smoke due to the manufacturing of cigarettes, without having to grow your own tobacco. It became convenient to now sit back and enjoy a relaxing afternoon with your moonshine and the Marlboro brand cigarette...Kool...
I tried and do not like Vape pens, it's not the same feeling you get from the process that involves smoke entering your lungs, some people actually like that feeling from smoking, and don't enjoy any other form of using tobacco or any product that requires smoking, like Cannabis. CBD Cannabis, which doesn't have THC and thus doesn't get you high, is still smoked from the flower.
My main issue with cigarettes isn't the tobacco or cigarette itself. It's the chemicals they put into these products, to either make them last longer, have more flavor, to get you addicted so you buy more cigarettes. And these chemicals are what is bad for the atmosphere. They put these chemicals in the paper itself, and also on the tobacco. Sometimes I don't even think that it's tobacco in the cigarette anymore, and it's highly synthetic, and laced, with like one flake of real tobacco. I emptied one out to use for a joint, and examined the tobacco and it didn't look like Tobacco, it looked like color-dyed paper.