I'm not claiming it is, or isn't, but hear me out here. Tobacco usage started tapering off, and all of the supposed "research" about it causing cancer began coming out roughly the same time Rockefeller took over the the medical industry and started pushing out established medicinal principles and knowledge. Fast forward a little bit, and Big Tobacco starts messing with the cigarette recipes to increase profit margins. They stopped using pure tobacco and started mixing it with various additives that today are known to cause cancer. This then spread to other "lesser" forms of tobacco. Chew, snuff, dip, etc.
The two outliers here, are Cigars and Pipes. Both tend to be "higher class/quality", rarely if ever have additives and have remained "pure". In doing so, several studies (Which you can easily find with a quick search), have shown that smoking up to two average sized cigars results in an absurdly small increase in chances of developing cancer of any kind.
On the other hand, nicotine, the main "ingredient" in tobacco products, actually has quite a few health benefits if used in moderation. Increased neural functions, improved memory, lowered chance of Dementia, increased blood flow (which promotes hair growth, muscle growth, etc.), etc. etc.
The point I'm trying to make here, is what if tobacco isn't bad for you in and of itself. Rather, it's all the crap the cabal companies stuff into their products to increase profits. If true, this is kind of like the soy thing. Pushing the populace into accepting some new "standard belief" that actually works against them and then engineering the results they want to "prove their point". Think about it? How often did you hear about tobacco linked cancer before the 40's and 50's? The Native Americans used tobacco in spiritual rituals for how many thousands of years with little to no negative side effects?
And then there's examples like Winston Churchill. Guys who chain smoked 10+ cigars a day, never had cancer, or so much as a cough, and lived into their 90s.
I'm curious what everyone's thoughts are on this topic.
Everything burnt is carcinogenic, including food cooked on the grill. My Uncle got throat cancer from too many Joints, he never smoked tobacco, only weed. He smoked as much as IceT... But, I do agree tobacco has been vilified and lied about including recently...
Nicotine blocks the ACE2 receptors thus preventing cv19 spike protein from attaching. (probably other corona viruses as well) This was well known at the beginning of the pandemic that smokers were not getting infected at a higher rate like experts expected.
In fact the number of hospitalized smokers with c19 was so small that intelligent people started to look into why, while bureaucrats and media censored the truth of the findings. Nurses in NYC and other locations were using nicotine patches as prophylactic against c19.
you can find older studies if you search but the data has since been buried/censored and scrubbed from the web, replaced with untrue, damning, fake "science". Webmd had a good article on it in April 2020. It is archived on their site now. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200430/smokers-hospitalized-less-often-for-covid-19
Smoking is also an anti-inflammatory and the NIH has studies showing it can be beneficial in some disease scenarios where inflammation is an issue.
I believe that the "second hand smoke" vilification was done to distract people from the real culprits, like the chemicals and pesticides used in out agriculture and packaging processes as well as industrial toxins many are exposed to every day. Even as MANY people have quit smoking and almost all businesses and public areas have banned smoking, the rates of illness they say are caused by "second hand smoke" has still increased year after year. I am not saying that no one has ever been injured by second hand smoke, I am sure a few have. It is being used as a scapegoat to steer people away from the real polluters, meanwhile government agencies and media are blowing smoke up everyone's A$$, with the second hand smoke issue.
For every patient I have that’s a firefighter with CA, they have stories of many other firefighters they know or work with who also have some type of CA. One of them told me that they all blame their job exposure and think of it as a matter of “when they get CA”, not “if”. I dunno why but I always remember that particular patient, probably b/c it was a pretty depressing conversation and I never realized firefighting could be hazardous in other ways besides actually fighting fire. There are so many things that we’re exposed to daily that cause CA, it’s amazing that anyone’s body is ever able to fight it off at all.