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people smoke, people don't do things that are purely detrimental. There aren't a lot of people who chop off their own limbs for example.
People don't do things that are purely detrimental? How about...
Suicide, drunk driving, yelling at your boss, antagonizing people who might be armed, commiting crimes in places where you should know there are cameras, intentionally posting racist shit on social media where potential employers will see it, eating unidentified mushrooms, smoking crack, smoking meth, snorting cocaine, shooting heroin, speedballing, k-holing in a public place, shacking up in a public restroom, defecating in a public pool, fake attempting suicide just to get attention, autoerotic asfixiation, watching a Fast & Furious movie, having unprotected sex with strangers, getting a tattoo of your current boyfriend or girlfriend"s name, signing up for a variable-rate loan, mixing Viagra and MDMA, paying for extra lives in mobile games, eating fast food, putting things inside your butthole that you'll need a doctor to pull out later, trying to pet a dog that's growling at you, trying to wax your own ass, having "just one more drink" on a Sunday night, impulse shopping, and trying to get some of that earwax out with a Q-tip even though you know that's just going to push it further in and cause it to block your hearing on that side completely until you can get someone to squirt water into your earhole and flush out the earwax stopper you just made?
not responding to your gishgallop but I'm gonna say that the few I read people do it because they can and want to. Suicidal people are struggling with issues that you could never comprehend and I'm glad that some developed nations like Canada and Switzerland are giving them the medical treatment they desperately need.
People drink and drive because they have to regularly show up in person to do real jobs like build your roads or stock your store shelves and can't show up to work hung over, who could blame them if you have mouths to feed. Plus if there is no victim there is no crime. I'm sure you're able to come up with reasons YOU would yell at your boss or YOU would get a blowjob in a public restroom, you're just being obtuse.
Aren't we moving the goalposts here? You went from saying that people don't do purely detrimental things to saying that they have reasons for doing purely detrimental things. I never said otherwise. Where do you think half that list came from? Personal experience.
People do purely detrimental things all the time because we are stupid hairless monkeys. Smoking cancer sticks is a prime example.