I’m going to be obnoxious to some of you here, but bear with me.

You’ve been told plenty of times before why not to smoke. I’ll summarise it briefly:

1. Its bad for your health. Yellow teeth and fingers are the least of your concerns. Your immune defense will be weakened,  your skin will lose its both ability to keep foreign bodies out, lose its ability to retain moisture, and thus you will look 10 to 20 years older than you are (which is why its mindboggling that young women choose to smoke at all!). The smoke contains a “tar” of noncombustible or combustion remains that will build up in your lungs.  These are themselves poisonous, but what’s worse is that they contain traces of Polonium, a radioactive element, and as such is a major contributor to lung cancer.
2. It’s bad for your wallet. Not as much in countries that don’t or barely tax tobacco as in in countries that do (Scandinavia and Western Europe in general).
3. It weakens your physical condition: You’re going to have a hard time on the running track or at your favorite sport.
4. You lose your sense of smell and a good deal of your sense of taste (much of the sense of taste of say hot food, is in fact a combination of taste AND smell). You’re robbing yourself of the delicious taste experiences of your favorite foods. You won’t be able to smell the spring flowers. Youre quality of life drops.
5. It’s harmful to those around you. You can choose not to believe it, but but even low amounts of smoke tobacco fumes put others that inhale it at a risk.  Assuming the wind doesn’t carry tobacco smoke away, the rest of uss can clearly smell it from over 20 metres down the street.
6. Tobacco companies have known that smoking tobacco was carcinogenic for decades, even a decade before the harm of tobacco use came into the public searchlight. Even as it did, they were continually researching how to make tobacco more addictive. A hooked customer is a loyal customer.
7. Worst of all, in re. #1, the tobacco companies knew this all along. The Polonium originates from apatite rock that is ground down to use as a Phosphorous fertiliser for the tobacco plants. They didn’t care, despite being well aware of both the problem and a method of removing the radioactive substances from the fertiliser.

In summary: It’s bad for you, its costly, it robs you of your life quality, and you are the BITCH of the tobacco companies that are killing you all while they’re draining your money out of your wallet!

To paraphrase Neo,: “How about that I give you the finger, and you give me my money back?“