Just sitting here, watching lotr and got texted by my aunt asking about my love for spicy stuff. Then I thought about my philosophy teacher and his love of IPAs of the highest IBUs. Like these are chemicals nature specifically designed is to be adverse to. Yet there is a not insignificant number of us that choose to indulge in them.
Ethanol is poisonous and carcinogenic and extremely popular. Burned nicotine also of course.