Nope. My parents insist they barely smoke but I would call their habit 'chain-smoking.' It sucks because I'm asthmatic and they smoke outside -- with the door open, and it blows right in to where I'm sitting right now. Just sniffing it makes me cough heaps and get a headache. There's no
reason to smoke -- there's every reason to give it up. And even if it's hard, suck it up and quit. You'll feel better for it. Take up knitting or reading or walking or something you enjoy. THAT will lower your stress.
Smoking doesnt ruin your life. It is your choice to continue smoking. Your the one who causes it to ruin your life when you make smoking more important then your family and friends. Smoking just puts you on the path to damnation. You can go off that path at any time. The only real harm smoking does is it gives you a habit and heart disease.
I would call
that ignorance. Smoking causes a chemical addiction, which is hard to break without sufficient willpower. Most people say they're going to quit and then they never do because of their chemical addiction. There's no point having a social smoke and then suddenly getting addicted and smoking more and more. Also, heart disease is
not all you can get from smoking, and that habit is far more than how you dismiss it. It ruins your life when you find out you've done some crap to your body that's basically irreversible or only treatable, not curable; it ruins your life when you realise you've got no money because you're spending it all on smoking; it ruins your life when you're so addicted you can't stop, which, even if you're enjoying yourself, is an absolutely horrible state to be in.
Obviously it's alarmist to say one smoke in your life gives you cancer and heart disease and everything else; but the problem is a lot of people have one smoke and then another because they don't see the 'real harm' in that, and in the end they lie to themselves and tell themselves when they smoke fifteen a day that it's still not harmful, that they'll quit come New Years', that it's just pure alarmism that smoking hurts you at all.
