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>We spent decades trying to get rid of cigarettes

We spent decades trying to get rid of carcinogens from cigarettes. What's the problem with cigarettes without carcinogens?

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It's like the people who think smoking a cigarette or Juul is one of the seven deadly sins, but also smoke pot every day and see no problem with it.

That's not me, but I can kinda relate conceptually. Constantly pumping anything into your body seems bad; to use your deadly sin adage, I'd call it gluttonous. Even a daily pot smoker, would likely not be smoking a bowl every ten minutes all day long. Sure those people exist, but they probably aren't looking down on nicotine users.

Who says this?

Do those exist? Maybe can argue vapes but we don't know either way just can guess.

Also aren't there a LOT of other problems from smoking and nicotine alone, in terms of lung health and hypertension, heart stuff etc

>Also aren't there a LOT of other problems from smoking and nicotine alone, in terms of lung health and hypertension, heart stuff etc

Probably. Weed isn't good for you either. Neither is Alcohol. At some point, you got to let people make some decisions.

Totally I'm an advocate for 100% legalization of all drugs. Though with strong regulation for things like opiates, more as replacement harm reduction thing than it being something you can get at a liquor store (and you can probably argue similarly for alcohol looking only at a net harm + addiction lens, but that kind of proves the point in treating different drugs differently because of stigma).

I don’t think so. A cursory google search sounds like nicotine itself causes minuscule to no damage by itself.

This is the best single source compendium I’ve seen on the question: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine

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