To begin ; My two favorite SG models don't like smoking. :( ( whisper ) I don't like tattoos . :D
That's life kiddies.
Now to elaborate a bit further ; The roads are not clogged with Ford Pintos and Trabants and two-cycle Motorscooters. They are clogged with SUV's, Cadillacs , and Harley's.
This is to say that they are not merely a means to get from point A to point B , a painful necessity . No, they are luxuries and status symbols.
Well, it's a bit of an obvious no-brainer, no fancy math involved ; when you crank up your 8-cylinder ( when a 4 cylinder would have served just as well ) or your Harley ( when a motor scooter would have done just as well ) and drive your luxury and status symbol to the grocery store, or to work, or to no place you really needed to go actually, you have undoubtedly just cranked out more pollution than I would crank out in 15 cartons of cigarettes. So spare me the health and human rights bullshit. ---- or don't , its ok, we both know you are faking it anyway.
Cigarettes are poor mans Prozac , and I suspect that is what is really unattractive. You can take off work, drive to a 300-dollar-an-hour doctor, to get a prescription for a pill that is going to turn you into an emotional zombie who sleeps 16 hours a day , an causes as a side effect a psychotic break in one out of every 5,000 users , and , not to mention , it is going to kill you in 30 years no less than cigarettes would , dead is dead either way , and i rather suspect that in many of these cases a 20 dollar carton of roll-your-own cigarettes would have served the purpose just as well. Socially acceptable seems time and again , suspiciously, to have a lot to do with money, and socially unacceptable likewise , seems time and again , suspiciously, to have a lot to do with money. They call it capitalism now, instead of feudalism, but it still appears to me that it's still Aristocrats = good and virtuous , Peasants =bad and inferior. Somebody wake me up when we actually do leave the Middle Ages.