Breaking form and upvoting and commenting saying that this should be upvoted. But seriously, I remember when the last e-cig article submitted to HN. Comments w

Breaking form and upvoting and commenting saying that this should be upvoted. But seriously, I remember when the last e-cig article submitted to HN. Comments were a complete shit show of conflation of of tobacco, smoking and nicotine. It was absolutely completely cringeworthy. Mind you the article does just fine conflating the two as well. For example, the first big evidence it produces, the meta-analysis on effect of nicotine. The article leads in with "which summarizes the last 40 years of knowledge about tobacco and nicotine effects on the brain", but the actual study is directly about nicotine only, only dealing with tobacco tangentially. This is absolute hurtful to the discussion. And honestly, anytime we have a discussion about non-medicinal (as in using chemicals to treat a condition that a doctor would consider not normal) use of drugs, its probably really useful to take a moment and think "how about our societal addiction to caffeine?".