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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Keep smoking and the possible smoking related diseases will cause huge amount of pain. Think of it as a deteriorating disease like osteoarthritis which 80% of us will get as we age. Over the course of years, the bone will slowly deteriorate but the pain won’t come for years after the osteoarthritis shows up through radiography.

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