William H Macys wrote:
I feel like it's just kinda something to do. Like, you ever work a job you don't really like and wind up drinking 6 cups of coffee a day? I did that (actually now I'm drinking green tea because 6 cups of coffee makes me insane) for no reason other than I wanted to get up and do something.
Smoking just feels kind of good and fills 5-10 minutes of space, that's all. People are notoriously terrible at judging long term risks and their own will power, so the fact that they'll probably get COPD if they smoke too much doesn't bother 20 year olds.
I drive by the local hospital every day and smile when I see a couple of their employees, some in scrubs, huddled outside, across the street from it, puffin away. They can't smoke on hospital grounds.