Good fucking grief. Courage? I don't need to regurgitate the discrepancies mentioned by many here, eg sugar snake oil, junkfood, ALCOHOL etc. I'll instead infu

Good fucking grief. Courage? I don't need to regurgitate the discrepancies mentioned by many here, eg sugar snake oil, junkfood, ALCOHOL etc. I'll instead infuriate some guardian angels with a less pharisaic perspective on tobacco. Tobacco is a plant. Its use is not solely relegated to neatly packed, ugly boxes of pre-rolled toxic cardboard shavings. It can and does take the form of hand-rolled cigars and snus - which when not consumed fanatically, have low correlation with disease. Snus is not exposed to heat, neither in processing or consumption. This results in a product with negligible nitrosamines. Until a nephilim lands amongst us with enough courage to ban hotdogs and candybars, public danger thereof will probably exceed that of snus, if frequency of consumption is proportionate. The same ideology that impels such extreme measures as botanical bans, has humans suffering for decades in cages for possessing marijuana; another plant. I will be reasonable and suggest that one could easily go on a diet of hotdogs, beer and candybars and fare worse than one who enjoys a daily cigar, and they could do it shopping exclusively at CVS (not the cigar smoker though, who must shop at Walgreens and doesn't drink). A more obscure but significant problem with some tobacco is psychology. The packaging, quantity and pre-rolling exacerbate it, making it too easy to effectively smoke a habit, rather than cigarette, ie some smoking is done less because of addiction and more due to habit. Cigarettes, and in some cases tobacco, are obviously problematic. Abandoning either rather than banning both altogether seems reasonable. However, I can no longer buy a cigar at CVS. I can get Rx for restless leg filled and wash it down with acetaminophen and beer and Skittles though. Meanwhile, cigars are legal, but CVS is at a higher level. I know tobacco can be a problem. Is it a problem? Maybe some applications are problematic. Well, certainly some are.