I don't think nicotine itself is that bad for you, it seems like nicotine inhaled via cigarettes is an entire different league to other nicotine/tobacco forms.

I don't think nicotine itself is that bad for you, it seems like nicotine inhaled via cigarettes is an entire different league to other nicotine/tobacco forms. Cigar and pipe smokers as a rule don't have the kind of compulsive many a day habits that cigarette smokers do.