I don't really give a flying snot, how many lives are "saved" by not smoking. By my "rough guesstimate", we already have about 3 billion too many now. (Yes, you read that right, "billion", with a "B").
As far as being led to what a clique of "doctors" has to say about "saving lives", they can only afford that new Beemer every other year, is if people keep getting sick, and insurance keeps paying them extravagantly to heal the sick . The joke there is, "a doctor is someone who takes your purse to see how sick you are".
Now, I abundantly don't care how many people die from smoking. Bit I do have quite a vested interest in how much my non-smoker's medical insurance premiums go up, alongside their completely lacking enough "common sense", to quit. So, when I see pictures of someone who feels it necessary to lift their oxygen mask to put a cigarette in their mouth, the first thing that springs into my mind is, "they should likely be euthanized", as treatment seems too expensive and pointless to continue. Bear in mind I also have an abundant disregard whose father, mother, sister, or brother they happen to be. They're a massive burden to the rest of the health insurance paying, and not our problem.
Now, you keep pumping out crap about "vaping", is practically good for you. While out the other side of your mouths, you blabber how, "nicotine isn't addictive". So why bother with it at all?
Now, you can whimper all you want about the "government just wanting the money". I figure, the government taxing your bad habits, is, (at least for the time being), not picking my pockets. (y)
So, the debate rages on, "nicotine is addictive", "nicotine isn't addictive","nicotine perks you up", "nicotine calms you down", ad naseum.
What nicotine is, is a junk high. You barely get off on it when you start taking it, but yet, a week later you can't feel it, and a team of wild horses can't get you to quit taking it.
So, make all the mental deals and compromises with yourself you choose, just don't expect those not involved with, "the vaping community", to take any particular interest in, "you problem", "your revelry", "you necessary evil". "the sport of kings", help me here, what should we call it?
I've always been fascinated by this, "MDMA", AKA "ecstasy", is correctly called "3,4-Methylenedioxy
methamphetamine". Yet you talk to anyone who takes it, they'll swear up and down they don't do "crank". I diagnose that as, "my drug is better than your drug although they're pretty much the same thing".
As far as all the money pissed away over the years to verify the fact that cigarette smoking causes cancer, it was probably unnecessarily spend, in an effort to rein in the tobacco lobby.
When I took my first cigarette at about 13, (1951), they had already been called
"coffin nails" for decades.
Now you follow one of my links:
http://tobacco.harpweek.com/hubpages/CommentaryPage.asp?Commentary=Introduction
Questions?