The carcinogen free* tobacco conspiracy
(en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Thanks for posting. Tobacco has been demonized to such an extent that even the conspiracy-inclined have a programmed aversion to thinking that it might not be as bad as the TV says it is.
Like snus, snuff has never been shown to have any deleterious health effects. And the one study that examined pipe smoking without grouping it with cigars found that pipe smokers lived longer than non-smokers. They started lumping pipe smokers in with cigars after that to "prove" that pipes were bad for you.
Yeah how to lie with statistics is like lesson one in the control manual it seems. If you can give people a contextless stat to cite you got em. The government would rather we get sick on their taxed poison than cured on untaxed medicine. (Many human groups have treated tobacco as a ceremonial/medicinal practice). Same story for Kanehbosem
Snuff has the same air curing process as snus, which explains the similar health outcomes.
Thanks for the comment!