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As a pharmacologist, it is patently obvious that tobacco, especially smoked tobacco, is not nicotine and that nicotine is not tobacco

Manufacturers get away with health claims that arent backed by evidence, leaving consumers wrongly convinced these products are healthier simply because they sound plant-based or organic.Clearly, the bigger message is tough but unminced: theres really no such thing as a harmless cigarette or harmless smoking.The industry may keep rebranding smoking: light, mild, organic, natural, and now herbal. The packaging keeps changing, along with the ingredients and the promise

Plus, the atlas notes, tobacco farming is increasingly shifting toward countries with economic and political vulnerabilities

And the brain can become used to the high levels of dopamine

It's not in everyone

An acid TV host in Morning Glory, an evil nun in The Young Pope