tobacco

I can see no possibility that vaporizing tobacco extract is more harmful than smoking raw tobacco, either from a lung health or a cancer perspective.

Thankfully, there are ways to ingest caffeine and nicotine that don't involve smoking coffee grounds or tobacco leaves.

That is, many of the negative consequences of tobacco come from the delivery method instead of the desirable nicotine.

People using chewing tobacco would be better off vaping which would give them the nicotine without all the other gunk.

If you're vaporizing tobacco extract, is that any better than smoking from a health perspective?

Similarly, money bought decades of protection for the tobacco industry -- the medical link between smoking and cancer was established in the 1940s.

I have a friend on a very low income - most of which he spends on alcohol and tobacco.

Chewing tobacco is better than smoking it, but it's still risky.

I'll call bollocks on the tobacco companies and claim that they might have some other ulterior motive behind making scientific claims that tobacco isn't harmful and their cigarettes do not cause lung cancer.

I am of the understanding that we currently produce liquid nicotine from tobacco leaves, and use the liquid nicotine for electronic cigarettes.

It doesn't have a lot to do with regressive tax policies, which are based either on income or wealth, you can't apply that to tobacco products.

Our descendants will consider advertising like we consider tobacco: dangerous to your health.

It reminds me of the classic picture of 7 Big-Tobacco executives swearing to Congress that "tobacco is not addictive" despite evidence that they internally held reams of documentation from 1960s indicating the opposite [1].

I don't know if there's some specific definition for "smoking tar" like what's advertised for tobacco products.

Well documented in the film "Merchants of Doubt." Many cut their teeth in the tobacco industry and went on to ply their trade in environmental denialism.

The claim, in many (but possibly not all!) scenarios is very similar to tobacco companies saying "the science behind tobacco smoke being harmful to humans is far from being settled and science hasn't fully answered some of the so-called issues".