(October 23, 2023 at 7:08 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Nothing nice or attractive about smoking [...]
The empirical evidence indicates that there must be something nice or attractive about smoking to all those who start. Otherwise they wouldn't start.
What happens later on may be different, but at the beginning it must be nice or attractive.
Whether this positive quality is chemical, social, or symbolic none of us here can really say. But all those attractions are real attractions.