Not like intentionally crying sad, more like in a pitiful/pathetic way. Most comedic moments depend on jokes about actual addicts in frankly deplorable situations and some kind of substance abuse and that's very uncomfortable to me.

I fully get it's exaggerated and I'm probably looking too much into it, but it feels like the show is making fun of addicts. Not just smoking, but also drugs. So like, sad that the creators had to stoop to this level.