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.
This actually made me think of something else I've been researching lately. What's with the weird hate on vaping? It's been proven, consistently over the last 15 years since it first became a thing, that vaping is MUCH healthier than any other form of nicotine delivery system. All of the "explosions" were caused by user error of people not knowing what they were doing. Likewise, that weird "popcorn lung" thing a few years back was the result of stupid kids trying to add THC into their vape liquid, resulting in a chemical reaction.
Vaping, as you said, is literally just water/vegetable oil vapor. There's little to no smell, essentially no lingering odor/residue, and as an often ignored bonus, the literal hot vapor you're inhaling improves lung functions if you have clogged sinuses since it will break up the mucus like a regular vaporizer/humidifier.
In fact, the UK has, as of a few years ago, started prescribing zero nicotine vaping as a method of treating congestion based lung aliments.
So you get all of the benefits of nicotine that I mentioned in the post, combined with zero downsides and an added bonus of IMPROVED lung function.
There is literally no downside to vaping if looked at from that perspective. Yet, it's been freaking vilified in most countries. That just adds to my point and makes me even more convinced that the cabal is trying to prevent people from partaking of nicotine products. Possibly in order to "dumb down" the population since, as I mentioned, it increases neurological functions and improves memory.
Kind of like how they put fluoride in the water to make every dumber as well.
Hmmm…yes the no vaping never made any sense to me…it may be another interesting data point dissuading people from getting nicotine. I’ll get some nicotine gum tomorrow.
There is one state in the mainland US which does not fluoridate their water…Nevada.
Kids do fluoride rinses to protect against caries.
Tobacco Master Settlement in the USA (other policies elsewhere). States are paid per-smoker by Big Tobacco for the harm done to smokers, with the trade-off that they protect Big Tobacco from being sued by citizens. If people switched to vaping, the states lose the money. They've all borrowed deeply against future payments already. And they couldn't include vaping because they'd be unable to prove it harms people.
It's horrible to say that vaping uses vegetable oil. That would be deadly. It uses vegetable glycerine which has been known safe for inhalation for 50+ years. Oil or oil vapor in the lungs causes pneumonia quickly, only some CBD idiots even tried it.
To be clear, Popcorn Lung is caused by massive inhalation of a certain flavoring, the one used in microwave popcorn. No vaper was ever harmed by it, only people in popcorn factories. People really liked it as a part of creamy vape flavors, but the industry abandoned its use voluntarily out of an abundance of caution.