"Smoking" in the common vernacular means regularly smoking cigarettes, which is a nicotine addiction in most cases. Comparing nicotine addiction to weed, which

"Smoking" in the common vernacular means regularly smoking cigarettes, which is a nicotine addiction in most cases. Comparing nicotine addiction to weed, which has it's own very different abuse profile, only because they often share a method of ingestion, makes no sense. Vaping nicotine has indeed replaced a lot of the consumption of old fashioned cigarettes. But that has nothing to do with weed.