Abandon the ridiculous concept of smoking as being pleasurable for its own sake. If we smoked just for the sake of smoking, we could smoke herbal cigarettes (no, not that kind of herb!). The reason that herbal cigarettes haven’t taken off here or anywhere else is that there is no point in smoking them because they haven’t got any nicotine. We can clarify this point by comparing it with heroin. Do you think a heroin addict shoots up because he enjoys using a hypodermic or to get the drug? It’s so obvious with other people’s addictions, isn’t it? Smokers smoke to get nicotine, not because they
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