@Barron111 Because it's just kind of gross and fundamentally unsexy to a lot of people. It's much more viable to have a healthy relationship with alcohol than cigarettes and drinking doesn't poison the air for everyone around you and make you smell and taste like aerosolized death. That being...
Every time I see or read about someone smoking in fiction and it's intended to come off as suave and cool I can't stop thinking about how disgusting it is to be anywhere near someone who is smoking IRL. Kanda probably tastes like an ashtray.
God, I hope we're not seriously gonna do back to back love rival arcs. I do agree that Izumi shutting those nerds down was pretty damn fantastic and definitely made an otherwise bleh chapter worthwhile.