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i_nomad
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Apparently you didn’t read anything I linked…Regardless of how long smoking tobacco has been around, the fact of the matter is that inhaling smoke particles into your lungs harms your health. There is no way around if you are looking for a way to justify smoking. There is no healthy cigarette. There is no healthy amount of smoke. Smoking was not demonized 400 years ago because no one knew what smoke did to the body. You also had to either be wealthy in order to afford tobacco (tobacco was used as currency) or you have to be a indian shaman. The average person did go around smoking a pack a day. It was time consuming to smoke as well and you didnt just go buy some tobacco and smoke.... You had to prepare it yourself and who has that kind of time when every day is struggle to survive.
Nicotine however, the chemical that you are addicted to does have some health benefits. It is a neuroprotective chemical. It can help with Parkinson's. It is a nootropic. Have noticed that when a smoker needs to contemplate something they grab their cigarettes and head for the door to smoke?
There is no benefit to your health whatsoever with smoke cigarettes. Even vaping is dangerous... Did you know they put ethelyne glycol in the nicotine fluid?
One of the original anti smoking studies, the Doll and Hill study, showed that smokers had a slightly higher risk of cancer than the non-smokers. But what was left out, but contained in their own data, was that those who inhaled showed a significant decrease in cancer risk.
Also, the Whitehall study, showed that those who quit smoking didn’t show a decrease in risk from cancers and diseases often associated with smoking… but did show an increase in risk (up to 2x) of certain types of cancer.
Or the fact that none of the top ten smoking countries feature in the top ten lung cancer countries, with one exception being the United States (3rd and 8th, respectively).
Read the stuff I linked. Humans have been breathing in smoke since the discovery of fire.