What are the benefits of smoking?

Question:

We know the cons of smoking, but is there any benefit of it?
Can anyone tell me?

Answers:
I smoked for 5 years and the only benefits I could say were, number 1: it was a social thing. Like if you're in a meeting with a bunch of people you don't know and they take a break, everybody that goes outside and smokes together has their own little conversation going like your automatically friends because you smoke. Number 2: I got alot more breaks from work to go have a cigarette. People would ask where I was and If someone said "outside smoking" it was like an excuse that was automatically accepted. It sounds dumb now that I don't smoke but it's true.

none ! someones body just needs it cause they probably started doing it when they was young and thought it was kool

if you smoke you can get lung cancer. no good side of smoking.

You haven't heard any because there are NONE.

However, people like to try and pass the following things off as benefits even though they are easily explained as other things.

Helps you relax.
Lose weight.
"keeps your hands busy"

I'm guessing the only real benefit is to do with socialising with other smokers.

Non that I have ever heard of. I used to be a smoker and I thought that smoking helped me relax but in reality all it does is raise your blood pressure. So I guess people that smoke may think that it is helping them in a certain way but it probably isn't

benefits to the tobacco farmers and the cigarette manufacturers. th.. th.. th.. that's all folks

I coulda owed a Porsche. well, at least a fully equipped Beemer with the $$ I spent I smokes. puts things in prespective, eh?

Lets see...It cuts down on your life span, so you die with a good looking corpse. Nobody wants to drive with you, cause you smell. It relaxes. It keeps you from overeating. And believe it or not, some people say that if you smoke you really look cool! But that would depend upon how you hold the smoke.

No! It is a carciogen, a poison.

there are not any

Maybe you would consider death a benefit.

Zilch benefits to smokers, costs alot, gives you all sorts of health problem, Do not start.!

There are no benefits that I can think of.

Nicotine actually has an effect kind of like caffeine.

There are no benefits of smoking. I used to be a smoker and it didn't benefit me at all, it only gives you trouble. Now that I am not smoking I feel alot better.

The only benefit I can see is if you don't like kissing because nobody likes to kiss someone that smells like an ashtray. Believe me, I used to smoke and there are no benefits.

clairvoyance, psychics in certain smoke w or w/o smoking like ancient saying "everything has beauty, but not everyone can see".

Im gonna keep it real with you. Only in social situations, like in bars, if your just sitting there doing nothing from time to time and you cant afford drink after drink, a cigarette in hand is cool. It keeps your weight down, instead of eating, you can have a cigarette and your appetite will disappear. Cigarettes are harder to quit than heroin so dont start!

What are the benefits of smoking?

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