tobacco

I seriously don't understand why tobacco became so popular. In my opinion, cigars and cigarettes taste and smell awful. It seems so strange to me that, many many years ago, someone looked at this awful-tasting and awful-smelling plant and said, "gee, I wonder what will happen if I roll this up and smoke it?" And then, once he smoked it, other people thought that looked like fun and did it too. Next thing you know, lung cancer. Really.