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>>9897605

I think the appeal is that cigarettes are a very practical drug. It reduces the stress without impeding your ability to do tasks. If the sole purpose was to feel calm then everyone would skip right over cigarettes and just pop pain killers or benzos and drink liquor or smoke weed, but they need to feel calm while continuing to do their jobs as efficiently as possible so feeling tipsy/drunk or high isn't ideal in this situation.

Japanese people bully because they have a lot of pent up rage from feeling so stressed and never being able to relax.

You can tell a lot about the people of a country by the drugs that they use. The most abused drugs in Japan are alcohol, tobacco, and benzodiazepines. So many people in Japan smoke constantly and their rate of benzo usage is off the charts.

The common feature of these three drugs is that they are the drugs which you make you stop caring. Take the benzos so that you can stop caring but you will still be functional and able to work, smoke during breaks to further reduce stress, binge on alcohol after work to forget about your worries and try to feel happy.

Japan's most commonly used illegal drugs are stimulants as well. Not marijuana, not opiates, even with the extremely strict punishments for illegal drug use they will risk it all just for the one drug that will make them perform more efficiently.

Illegal drug use in the west is more based around entertainment. Opiates to nod off into bliss, marijuana to have fun and stop feeling bored, MDMA to enhance the partying experience, etc. You can see that these drugs show traits of a society that is more bored than stressed, while in Japan you can see that their drug use is directly related to trying to stop the constant stress and they have no time for boredom.