Until last week, I was what's commonly referred to as a "hard smoker". I smoked about 10 cigarettes a day, no filter, and developed into this type of after 10 years into my 30 year addiction. I loved tobacco. I loved sitting in the sunshine on a hot day and smoking. I loved smoking in the rain with a hot beverage. I even learned to enjoy smoking in neg 30 degrees, and was utterly house broken to it. Latley I had to choose to switch to a vapor device for the better of my living arrangements, (house broken is no longer good enough) and it's been the easiest transition of my nicotine career. I see that even this is disdained though, and had it's own political drama chasing after it, which really has me thinking.... Smoking is number 3 (or is it 4?) in fatality amongst mankind, beat by heart disease and diabetes. We don't see anyone trying to stop our sugar intake! Not do we see education on parasitic infections (which I believe is directly related to heart disease) and education on how to properly do that, let alone help for treating it. We live in mold infested buildings and houses, severely affecting our indoor environments (which nobody even wants to seriously research the effects of, despite it's ability to colonize our bodies) which could be a massive contributer to secondary diseases that eventually kill us. Why save smokers? Why purge smoking (or anything that resembles it) in 3 generations? Nicotine, in of itself, does have worthwhile properties such as increasing concentration, delaying Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and even is considered therapeutic for schizoid type diseases....could it be doing other things too? Why would the benevolent powers that be want to end THIS, but not gasoline, crude oil, toxic perfumes, ect, ect, ECT! It just seems like something is really up, or going down, about nicotine. Any speculations would be great folks. In the 00's I used to laugh at chem trails saying they would get stuck in my hat lungs and be unable to traverse my body....foolish, or not? And I'm actually enjoying my salt nic set up, who the unwilling to quit has somehow quit combustion....still looking for that perfect tobacco replica, with its SLIGHT notes of raisin, even bubblegum at times, and beautiful perfuminess that I can't quite capture in words (underneath all the combustion exhaust flavor and burn lol)