The Case For Smoking

Smokers' Delight
By Troy T.

The Case For Smoking |
Monday – June 15, 2026

Smoking, a topic that I have covered in the past, is too often considered unhealthy and even immoral. The facts are, of course, much more nuanced and much more complicated: sure, profane scientists claim that smoking "kills" and causes all sorts of diseases, as if modern are not diseased enough already, but they very rarely mention the real benefits that smoking can provide, such as calming the nerves and regulating your mood, really helping you to perfect your life. Yes, it is true that profane scientists claim that about 1 out of every 10 people who smoke will end up with lung cancer, which is actually a pretty good statistic if you think about it. But of course, to those false preachers, to those profane scientists, really to those witch doctors, all I can say, ask really, is this: what about that 10% who do end up getting lung cancer? How is that statistic, that number, helpful? No, these people should be ashamed of themselves, and to some extent they are, but not for the reasons they should be ashamed of themselves, because you see, it is all too easy to point to cigarettes as a reason someone came down with Cancer, but how is that supposed to help that man in the moment, in the moment when he has acquired cancer? Well, statistics is not supposed to help, they will respond (the profane scientists that is), and to that I can only ask why they run statistics in the first place? If you are a so-called medical professional, why do you accept that your job, your line of work, the thing you are supposedly working hard for, has been reduced to numbers? Why do you not become a statistician instead, since your entire job appears to be about prognostication? Of course, most of these people will then go on to claim that they have some kind of "expertise" and that only they are qualified, read "Qualification", to make these judgments, yet most of them are too lazy to actually "run the numbers" themselves. So, I ask again, why is smoking bad? Why will smoking cause lung cancer, or any other disease? The truth, the real truth, is of course that smoking does not cause lung cancer more than just living causes lung cancer, and sure you may argue that the benefits from smoking are fewer and less impactful than the supposed downsides, but again what are the downsides? If we can establish that living makes us sick, depraved, and eventually living will make us die, why would it matter that smoking may or may not cause disease? See, what I am getting at here is the concept, the ancient concept really, of controlled berating, or in this case controlled death: if it is the case that smoking kills and further, if it is the case that you know what will kill you when you smoke and on top of that you also know that smoking have certain and well established benefits; then you could argue,nay you may, that smoking is helpful, for it provides you a way or controlled breathing, literally and figuratively, and instead of allow "nature" or "biology", as the moderns put it, to take its course you can actually place yourself at the helm of your life, especially if you are a modern person.

    Everything is decaying, rotting, decomposing, and so are you... Why not control that process? Why should you allow some kind of stupid and quite frankly evil conception of acceptance, read "Tolerance", to dictate to you how and when you die? Besides, knowing how you will likely die can provide you with a lot of guidance, and actually hope. Yes, since you are a modern man and since you pray to the altar of reason, you may as well embrace the nihilism beneath it all. I will add this: for me, it would be preferable if as many people as possible embraced controlled breathing, for this would make it less hard to concentrate on the things in life that actually matters, but for more about me read my "Personal Notes series". Yes, destruction ahead! But I should be more serious about this matter: the idea of allowing the forces, dark as they are, of the world to control your destiny is actually the more evil position, and we can all see this happening right in front of us, read "Ideological Indoctrination" and "Further Notes on Addiction".

    There is of course another case to be made here in favor of smoking: it is fancy to be "rebellious" these days, read "Should You Break Rules?", and one way that modern people can be rebellious is of course to smoke, and I guess it would be true as well that once upon a time it would have been rebellious to not smoke, which is funny but also very true, read as well "The End of History", because of course, the only thing the masses can do is to react to the ways of the revolutionary elite. This happens because modern people cannot be without identity; they must attach themselves to each and every aspect of their life, and this is because they lack a genuine connection with The Creator, and this is why it is an identity these days to be a smoker or to be a non-smoker. Nobody is just smoking these days without also being one of those smokers, and of course this identity also allows other people, the revolutionary elite, to pass on all sorts of moral judgement about smokers and their lifestyle, because everything has to be about lifestyle and identity, as if identity is something that you can wear like a piece of clothing, read "Preferences".

    Of course, the idea that being rebellious is righteous is wrong to begin with, and really is itself a sign of the deviation we are living under, but in this post I am merely allowing myself to consider these things from the point of view of modern people, and it just seems silly to me to be so petty about all of these details, yet completely unaware of the overall cosmological environment all around us. Of course, I should not be too surprised, since all of this is nothing new and quite expected anyways, read "Justice". But is there any justice truly involved in all of these considerations? Is there any justice in telling a man that he should not smoke because doing so "could" hurt his health, and because the rule of numbers has dictated this? Is it the case that our destiny is in the hands of the reign of quantity, and if so how is this not a poor substitution of God? Besides, it still seems to me that the idea that smoking causes cancer and other illnesses is a giant lie, for it must be so. Disease is after all caused by a lack of understanding of skillful means, and this is the real issue at hand here: a man that governs his own life in the domain that he belongs to is a man that lives in harmony; whether or not this man smokes is of no importance, read "Hierarchy".

Reginald Drax (AKA, M. C. Dutt) – June 15, 2026.