Smoking tobacco, as far as I know, does not make one spontaneously explode.
To say otherwise, in my view, would be overstating the risks of smoking.
To say otherwise, in my view, would be overstating the risks of smoking.
What if instead of slowly dying of cancer, smoking had a tiny tiny chance of making you die by exploding your face? Exact same probability of dying, just very violent and graphic.
Chances are barely anyone would smoke. Yet, same death rate.
To answer your point, I think smoking is worse than making your head explode, it has a much greater societal cost in healthcare than if you were to die there and then, and creates much more suffering.
It's like saying if you put $100 in your 401k every month, there's a chance (equal to the number of new retirees) you instantly get $2M dollars.
Many more people would understand the immediate gain instead of the 30 year slog.