That smoking exists?

Hecks yes!

Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to roll some crops up in a piece of paper, light it on fire, put it in their mouth, suck on it, and fill their mouth up with the smoke? History generally credits the brilliant John Rolfe to popularize smoking, and people referred to tobacco as the “golden weed.” Since then, sucking on flaming paper has been an enormously popular recreational pursuit!

Many things can be smoked, including, but not limited to, marijuana, tobacco, and hookah. Smoking this range of natural plants will give the smoke a range of feelings, depending on the object. Seems weird that lighting a plant on fire and breathing it in could make you feel anything but wholly dismal.

But what’s even weirder: the fact that someone thought smoking wouldn’t affect his or her health in a negative manner. In fact, it wasn’t until the ‘60’s that the U.S. Government (the surgeon general specifically) released any documentation classifying smoking as a potentially health-destructive habit.

That’s pretty weird. Wholly avoiding any attempts to promote an agenda here, but did it really take until the 60’s for the Government to realize that sucking on flaming paper could have potentially detrimental health effects? We invented a cure for polio, but neglected to realize the dangers of turning our mouth into a fireplace? After-all, our ears don't double as chimneys!

Weird indeed.