i stopped short of pointing out what i consider to be a self-evident truth: tobacco is fairly safe unless you burn it and inhale the smoke.
Chewing it, putting it up your nose, and a myriad of other methods are orders of magnitude safer than smoking it.
On chewing tobacco in the US it was a political decision to have large warnings about oral cancer on the packaging, not borne out by clinical fact, but as usual insisted upon by the vociferous anti-tobacco lobby. That is the same lobby that insists nicotine=tobacco=addictive that vapers have to engage.
An amusing side note is to google the rate of smoking among Swedish adults; they are one of the few places that has a realistic chance of nobody smoking within a generation.
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