If you smoke or used to smoke, why did you start smoking?

[Freddie]

22. I worked at a hospital in finance 1984-2004

When I started there were “smoking departments” and “non-smoking departments”. A cigarette machine next to the soda and candy machines. Patients smoked in their rooms. Then around 1990 they stopped allowing smoking in patient rooms and work areas, only designated lounges. The patients would walk outside in their hospital gowns dragging their IV poles with them, to have a cigarette.
They gradually phased out the smoking lounges and only allowed it outside...then in only a designated “smokers gazebo”...then finally no smoking on the grounds, not even in your car.
My daughter was a pretty heavy smoker until she got a job at the same hospital and had to get to her car and drive off the grounds to have a cig on her 10 minute break. That made her quit smoking, 12 years ago.