I am reading "The Art of AVRT," since it has a section on smoking. Chapter 7 in the book is called "The Big Gun," and it deals with the morality of drinking/using. The "big gun" is moral judgment.
Without judging anyone else, it asks two big questions:
- Considering all of your experience with alcohol and other drugs, is it right or wrong for you to drink/use in the moral sense?
- How would you rate your drinking/using on a scale of immorality? Way down on the bottom? Near the top?
I think this is what tripped me up with the cigarettes. It is not difficult for me to see that drinking is wrong for me, since it causes all sorts of problems, including damage to myself and others. Smoking, on the other hand, doesn't really alter my mind as radically as drinking, and I don't do terrible things while smoking. I saw smoking as bad for me, but I never really saw it as wrong. This weakens AVRT significantly.