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Seriously Xot ... what drugs do NOT have risks? Really ... just one.
None. Even oxygen can be dangerous.
But tobacco/nicotine/smoking has all risks without true benefit from a medical perspective (with the exception of ulcerative colitis where cigarette smokers have a lower risk then non-smokers).
It's a killer from every perspective, and it's use is highly prevalent (as opposed to crack, heroin, meth - which kill, but are used less commonly)
Without a true benefit? Seriously ...
I know a lot of people who are getting great benefits from their prescription drugs ... as long as they take a dozen others to keep the side effects from killing them. While nicotine can actually replace several psych meds, particularly the one that I was suppose to take for social anxiety, which had so many side effects I felt worse from them and was at a MUCH higher risk of liver failure and hear disease than smoking has ever given me. Really, take off the blinders. A drug is a drug, and all drugs have risks, and those risks are never the same for two people, nor are the side effects.
Just because a lot of people taking one drug happen to have the same illness doesn't mean the drug is responsible as well. That's why it's all circumstantial evidence, there is no definitive connection yet, only statistics which are easily manipulated for one reason or another. That's how they are able to have several "number one causes" in our country at the same time.
Okay...
Let me know if your opinion changes after your first heart attack.