I smoked for years, I quit when I was 62 or so. I enjoyed it, but I no longer have a covered deck and hot tub. It was my best smoking room. Years ago, people gave up on indoor smoking, which was gross even to smokers in homes. At pool halls, bowling alleys and bars it was part of the reason to go. Notice how bowling and pool leagues, along with tavern life died after smoking was banned.
If cigarettes were under $3 a pack, I may smoke again, I loved it, especially when I had a decent cigar and a long car ride.
We traded cigarettes for Covid damaged lungs...which smokers didn’t get, obesity and Diabetes. We all are going to die. My dad died from lung cancer at 78, he was active till a month before. My mom died from emphysema at 71, She wouldn’t quit, but knew what was coming. Mom and Dad smoked about 6 packs a day between them. I smoked about a pack a day average, but it was mostly on weekends. Then again, no bowling leagues, no pool teams, no dart leagues, and no hanging out at the tavern on weekends.
Life without cigarettes may be longer, or it might just seem that way. Like a car ride for 20 hours straight.
Now it ain’t that I don’t smoke myself
And I don’t reckon they’ll hurt my health
Been smokin’ ‘em all my life and I ain’t dead yet