While I'm not sympathetic to the tobacco industry, this is a dangerous argument because it depends on some agency's definition of "healthy". The article points

While I'm not sympathetic to the tobacco industry, this is a dangerous argument because it depends on some agency's definition of "healthy". The article points to sugar and alcohol as being unhealthy, but what about saturated fat or fluoride? There is plenty of debate on those as well as many other foods and ingredients.