Smoking is the act of burning processed tobacco and/or other illicit substances and inhaling the smoke and fumes.
Originally, tobacco was smoked in a pipe (a small container with a long tube that feeds the smoke into the mouth), but was subsequently replaced with cigarettes (processed tobacco rolled and wrapped in small, thin paper tubes). Non-cigarette smoking in modern times is done with a bong, which is essentially a tobacco pipe without the long tube.
While originally widely promoted as a healthy habit and even briefly promoted as medicinal, smoking has since been proven to be detrimental to one's health, causing breathing problems from tar buildup in the lungs. Additionally, tobacco contains the mental stimulant nicotine, which has an addictive effect and causes people to continuously smoke.
Since the 2000s, it is illegal for anyone below a legal age to smoke and numerous locations outright forbid smoking in any form. Despite this, medicinal tobacco does exist, but requires extensive regulation to prevent substance abuse.
Other substances that can be used to smoke with are opium first done in the Middle East with a shisha way before being brought to East Asia with a pipe and cannabis first done in India with a pipe.
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- Lilith is a habitual smoker and is generally shameless about doing so, which can be concerning for others due to her childish physique. Due to being a huge proprietor of livingly healthily, Polt severely disapproves of Lilith indulging in these habits, to the point that she hastily crushed a box of cigarettes the instant they caught her eye.[1]
- Due to their strong connection to nature, cigarette smoke is particularly harmful to plant-like liminal species such as Dryads and can lead to outward signs of discomfort such as wilting. In addition, some liminal species such as Kobold are hardly able to smoke, as they suffer great discomfort from toxic odors such as cigarette smoke due to their sense of smell, which is about ten thousand times stronger than that of a human.[1]
- Although tobacco is the most common substance used for smoking worldwide usually in the form of a cigarette, this product was originally smoked only by the Native Americans in the form of a pipe.
- The cigar which can be considered a cigarette on steroids is usually smoked in the Western world.
- In Japanese culture, cigarettes are often seen as a luxury that only the moderately to obscenely wealthy were able to get, with poorer citizens being unable to obtain any at all. However, since modern times, smoking in Japan is becoming more and more restricted, with public transport removing dedicated smoking areas and cigarettes being limited to only legal adults (certain cigarette Vending Machines in Japan also have the ability to decline card payments from anyone below the legal smoking age).
- In Japan, the only legal smoking substance is tobacco.
- Way before cigarettes are imported into Japan, the only way tobacco can be smoked is through a pipe called a kiseru.
- In most modern media, smoking is generally limited to works set in times where it was more acceptable and generally only done by characters performing legally questionable deeds. In Japanese media, characters primarily depicted as smoking includes criminal organizations, shady businesses and associated staff, perpetuators of traditional medicines, or troubled youths.
- This is also reflected in the manga series, as Mr President smoked a cigarette in his first direct appearance in Chapter 53 in a flashback of Rachnera, when his motives were not yet clear and there was a possibility that he was a crime boss. Later, when the series established that Mr President's trustworthiness is not entirely clear, but he is apparently not a criminal, he was no longer shown smoking. Many of the Minotaur traffickers in Chapter 85 are also shown smoking to clearly emphasize that they are villains.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Monster Musume: Monster Girls on the Job!, Chapter 4: Dealer