I suppose I could look at my own history that way.

If I'd taken to smoking regularly while I worked in the retail sector (rather than becoming a socially anxious, depressed drunk) I might not have gotten so sick of myself and my work that I wouldn't have gone back to school and gotten my college diploma.

Now I don't drink much but I smoke lots. Which is fine because they're paying me what seems like a ridiculous amount to sit at a desk and do work a bright chimp could be trained to do. It's just boring boring boring. Hence my preferred herbal remedy. I've been smoking every morning for two months and no one has noticed. Well, I suppose I'm more patient, nicer and more sociable now...