Smoking in general
 
Smoking cigarette gives pleasure to inveterate smoker. Especially, need for smoking is felt after eating, during drinking, negative emotions and during intensive work. At the same time inhaled nicotine doesn’t have positive effect on organism.  
 
For the most part, cigarette is a revulsive: switching of consciousness to the cigarette helps to forget unpleasant things, hard work. Smoking along with somebody facilitates communication between people; it’s a good chance to strike up new acquaintances. Elegant packs, colorful cartons, the manner of lighting a cigarette, inhaling of smoke also have certain influence on people.  
 

OH my gosh hesslei, according to those statistics, I died at least ten years ago.  I wonder how my funeral went? It was probably a no-show.      
The way I see it, we all have to die from something so it may as well be cigarettes, there are worse things out there to die from.  
 
Howdy Smoker, have not seen you in awhile.  

it seems to me as it affects people differently.
i've been smoking for a few years now, and i'm still very much active.
skateboarding, cycling for 1 hour every day, the occasional pick-up basketball game.
hehe, i don't find myself winded at all.