I dont know what got this idea into my mind but I see smoking as not an refined thing. When i speak about it to my sons they ask me who portrayed smoking to me in such a bad light. I just simply say, that i dont think it is good for ur middos, to NEED a puff, and that I don’t think highly of smokers *. They respect their father a lot, Baruch Hashem, and aspire to be like him, and he would NEVER spoke. It is simply below a respected talmid chachim and business man like him to puff a deadly, smelling poison. I tell my sons to leave the smoking for Bums that stand outside of bars. And towards the end of our discussion I told one of my sons that used to smoke but now stopped, B”H, that just as I daven him to have good chavrusas,to find satisfaction and enjoyment in learning, to have good Middos, I daven for him to be disgusted from cigarettes.
Obviously this is a very touchy topic, since pple that are addicted to smoking will ALWAYS try to defend themselves and their fellow smokers. I am simply stating my personal opinion.
I wouldn’t compare this to internet, drinking etc., these are different Nisyonos, just as we dont compare smoking to dressing non tzniusdigly.
*(I know some pple are thinking that many gedolim have smoked. When u will get to their madraiga then you can discuss it. )