"No tobacco is safe"? Sacrilege! [Chopper thinks you need to give yourself an uppercut]
"Sucking smoke deep into your lungs, is harmful" You must be an asthmatic or have a fragile constitution.
When I switched to a pipe from cigarettes, I quickly lost my smokers cough. My lungs are in great condition.
Although I now smoke a lot less than when I smoked cigarettes, the biggest difference is that I'm no longer consuming the 300+ added chemicals that are added to cigarettes.
Pipe tobacco has nothing worse than harmless PG and natural flavourings.
A U.S. Surgeon Generals report stated that pipe smokers who inhale have the same life expectancy as a non-smoker.
Commonsense alone tells us that sucking 300+ chemicals into ones lungs must surely be the cause of smoking related disease, not the tobacco itself.
Amish men smoke pipes and they have the lowest levels of smoking related disease in the U.S.
The benefits I get from puffing on my pipe far outweighs any risk of harm.
If one worried about every possible risk in life, one would be too frightened to cross a road, eat a hamburger or enjoy a few adult beverages at the end of a day.
Worry, stress and depression are leading causes of ill-health and disease.
If one chooses to self-medicate and relax with a pipe or cigar and a few beers, fretting over the slightest of risks that it may cause defeats the purpose in the first place.
The best response I've heard when some wowser tried to shame a smoker of fine tobacco, was when a holier-than-thou reporter asked George Burns what his doctor thought of his cigar habit as he lit a huge stogie. "I wouldn't know" replied George "he's dead".
Burns smoked several large cigars for most of his adult life and he lived to 101yo.
