Why does smoking cause damages but no pain?

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Just watched the Kurgazart video on smoking. Damn the effects are nasty! The video said that smoking causes lots of tiny wounds in the body.

So why is it not directly and immediately painful? The wounds may be small, but neurons are pretty small too. The euphoria from smoking should be shorter than the last-lasting wounds.

Pain is a natural deterrent. If smoking brought pain, even if it’s pain after pleasure, less people would smoke regularly. But somehow all those nasty chemicals only cause damages but no pain?

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the damage is only to a few cells at a time, and cells dont have individual pain receptors. but after 10 years of daily minor cell damage, the damage gets real.

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