Psychologically, a person’s rejection of tobacco could consist in imagining rotting yellow teeth, cancerous black lungs, etc. But sociologically, those associations may be programmed into the group for reasons unknown to the individual—reasons related not to health but to culture. In other words: Why are most people against tobacco? The individual-level answer, or perhaps more precisely the consciously known reason, may not match up with the group-level (i.e., subconscious or unconscious) answer/reason. What’s actually happening in the mind is one thing (e.g., the imagination of rotting yellow teeth, which results in rejection); why that’s happening is another thing. The real reason—if I may think of the sociological reason as primary, contra Roger Scruton in his book The Soul of the World (2014)—may be that tobacco is compatible more with the rightist than the leftist temperament. Tobacco is the drug of the right.