Smoking is a process in which a substance (often tobacco) is burned and the smoke is then tasted or inhaled. This process is carried out primarily as a recreational practice through the use of drugs, where the combustion of the active substance in the drug, such as nicotine, makes it available for absorption through the lung, there are thousands of chemicals that affect the central nervous system and cigarettes are The most common means of smoking today, whether the cigarette is industrially produced or hand-rolled from loose tobacco and cigarette rolling papers. There are other means of smoking are pipes, cigars, hookahs, and bongs.