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Quote by: Kizzume  There's another forum where someone talked about MISSING the flavor of cigarettes. He said that it tasted good, and that entire concept just boggles my mind, so I asked this and thought this was the appropriate thread to ask the same thing here, since the thread is about why people started to smoke.
If you think cigarettes taste good:
What in the world is "good" about the flavor of cigarettes? Just to see if I could taste anything pleasurable to see what people are talking about "MY brand tastes much better than THAT brand", at different times I've taken a couple puffs before on a Marlboro, a Winston, a GPC, a Camel, and some menthol brand that only makes menthol (I can't remember which one), and as I could tell slight differences between them, it was generally a god-awful flat-out ashtray flavor that seems very similar to the second-hand version, with the exception of the menthol one that had a slightly-different afterflavor.
Is this "good" in the sense of when people test really and truly stinky cheese, or really bitter wines, or really bitter beers, to where it's an acquired thing, or was this flavor something that you enjoyed the first time you did it?
If it was the first time you did it, please enlighten the people who do not understand as to what it is you LIKE about the flavor--what does the flavor remind you of? |
I think it'd be good to some people purely because of personal preference, though I don't think that would be the main reason people like smoking. I imagine it triggers endorphin release through the fact that you are taking in nicotine that is addictive. I'd guess it be something similar to a sexual drive.. it's something that would make you feel good if you satisfy?