I grew up in the 50s when cigaret smoking is popular in fashion and advertisements when its health damages to human were not yet known. So of course I tried smoking. But I found inhaling smoke totally disagreed with me and I get sick. On the other hand not inhaling did not proiduce any taste from cigarets. As a result, smoking cigarets never caught on with me much to my benefit as a result. But cigar smoking is different. No one inhales cigar smokes. The taste of a cigar by just holding the smoke in your mouth is sufficiently powerfully strong to be satisfying without inhaling. But cigars are quite expensive. A good cigar can cost more than a pack of cigarets. Also cigar smoking  is a solitary affair since the strong cigar smoke in public is not often tolerated. As a result , it is a luxury a starting youth cannot afford regularly. Consequently, smoking never became a habit withg me fortunately. 

However, as I  begin to be established gradually and financially, I do find a cigar after a good meal is a satisdfying concluding exp[erience. In retirement, I began the habit of regularly smoking half a cigar after the evening meal. In the CCRC where I live now there are plenty of wide open spaces away from building and people where I can enjoy smoking a cigar in my own car with open windows in all four seasons. This has now become an extra enjoyment after the evening meal. Since one does not inhale cigar smoke, I am not addicted. I don't feel the need  to smoke at any other time. And if I am dining out or having the meal with friends or others, I can easily do without. Otherwise, I view the evening ritual as an extra luxury I can now regularly afford to indulge as part of a satisfying evening meal. Even if there are unknown unhealthy effect of holding cigar smoke in your mouth briefly, I say to myself that at my advanced age , the habit is totally woirthwhile for whatever times I have remaining.in this world. I also reguarly de-odorize the car interior so that my loving wife can tolerate using the car when she need it occasionally. 

This is the expereince in my life about the "bad" habit of smoking.