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People who smoke 5 packs a day are very rare...and they're usually compulsive. I've known a few of those people and most light a smoke, take a drag or two, put it out, and light another. I've never met a single person who smoked 5 whole packs a day. You'd have time for little else.

I honestly enjoy smoking. Most of the best conversations I've ever had have been over many, many cigarettes. Any smoker will tell you that when you start really getting into a conversation with anyone, the first thing you do is start smoking more. For as many people who delude themselves into thinking smoking makes you look "cool", there are just as many people who delude themselves into thinking that looking cool is the only reason anyone starts. When I started smoking I really didn't know what "cool" was. I had my first cigarette when I was 11 or 12 (however old I was in 6th grade...I didn't smoke regularly until I was 14 or 15). It was just something different. At that age I probably would've tried almost anything (and I did frequently) because that's what you do when you're that age. Didn't have anything to do with being cool.

Why worry about something that will kill you in 50 or 60 years when there are so many things that can kill you today?