In some cultures smoking is used to induce trances and spiritual enlightenment
Smoking is sometimes exhilarating and relaxing although bad for your health. Yea, the smoke is actually absorbed into the bloodstream The nicotine is what is addicting. The bloodstream moves quickly. Smoking creates these heated aerosol as well as gas that gets in the lungs. The bloodstream then absorbs the substances. There is definetly a line of order in the way the body absorbs the smoke. Interesting.
In some cultures, smoking is also carried out as a part of various rituals, where participants use it to help induce trance-like states that, they believe, can lead them to spiritual enlightenment.