It's the blend of style, functionality, and reliability
Cigarette Nation: Business, Health, and Canadian Smokers, 1930-1975 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021) Rothfeder, Jeffrey
[13] As of 2008 to 2010, tobacco is used by about 49% of men and 11% of women aged 15 or older in fourteen low-income and middle-income countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, and Vietnam), with about 80% of this usage in the form of smoking
However, If popular culture is any clue to how persuasive these disclaimers really are, the answer is no
consumption later came to involve burning the plant substance, either by accident or with the intent of exploring other means of consumption