AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, "as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI", Palantir CTO tells CBS News' "Face the Nation"
(www.businessinsider.com)
Not to mention tar lung, coughing, lower lung capacity. Add in smelling like shit to everyone around you and losing your sense of smell and taste.
Cancer isnt even near the top of those reasons for me not to smoke.