My grandfather picked up smoking in WWII because non-smoke4s didn't get any breaks from digging trenches.

It took over 50 years, but WWII still managed to kill him.

Also, nicotine serves as a pretty fair appetite suppressant and stimulant, thus why some of us fell into the habit in early college. Easier to justify the cost of a meal a day and a smoke than it is for the supplies to make three squares a day, at least in a food desert.

I had a job where breaks were working breaks unless you were a smoker. That's when I went from only smoking socially to being a regular smoker.

I've worked at a cleaning job where the smokers were allowed to go outside whenever. Some even went on a smoke break several times per hour. The nonsmokers like me on the other hand were reprimanded if we sat down and drank something outside of the scheduled break. I complained, but the boss was a smoker and just told me they need their smoke break but I don't need coffee.... One coworker whom I talked to about that even said they started smoking because of this and because the non-smokers were expected to work more and cover for the smokers on their cigarette breaks.