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Because cigarettes are addictive? People start in a weak moment and fail to stop. It's not a rational decision.
To add to this, if you are not carful around people who smoke both, you can get a big hit of nicotine
To add more to this: Retail and food service both heavily encourage people to start smoking. Managers give extra breaks to smokers, because the managers smoke and “it’s only fair, right?” So the employees start smoking to get the extra breaks. Because nobody wants to be the only server on the floor during the peak dinner rush, when every single one of your coworkers is outside the back door having a nice calm chat.
And so those employees start smoking to get the extra breaks. And then those employees become the managers a year or two later, and continue to only give extra breaks to smokers. Because “well I had to start smoking to get the extra breaks, so they can start smoking if they want the extra breaks too.” And the cycle repeats ad infinitum.
And a lot of people work retail and food service when they’re in their late teens/early 20’s. Which means a lot of them start smoking early, and then struggle to quit as adults because they’ve smoked for basically their entire adult life.