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Smoking can be good for some:

"The risk of Parkinson's disease is reduced by cigarette smoking.. There is now robust experimental evidence for a neuroprotective effect of nicotine upon dopaminergic neurons." - http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/746713

"current smokers were less likely to be obese than never smokers" - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886648

"nicotine is also known to enhance aspects of cognitive function, including attention and memory (for a recent meta-analysis, see Heishman et al., 2010)." - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028390813000725