In the 1970s, several major attempts were made to show that inhalation of tobacco smoke would produce lung cancer in mice, rats, hamsters, dogs, and even monkeys.
Although some of these experiments involved thousands of animals, the aggregated evidence failed to confirm the human epidemiological studies. Inhalation of tobacco smoke, even if conducted over the lifetime of animals, failed to reproduce the disease seen in man
@FortyTwo I´d suggest a documentary called A Billion Lives (2016). Setup is quite simple. It´s not tobacco nor nicotine, that causes harm. There´s a lot of added chemicals in regular cigarettes that cause most of the issues.
I am no scientist, but adding things that keep you hooked (with harmful side effects ofc) seems like a good business decision.
Cancer sticks (regular cigs) totally switched out all the other tobacco products. Cigars, pipes, snuff, rapé etc.
@FortyTwo@cmp I’ve heard that too, and it’s completely believable, but to your original point, we’ve gone from most people smoking like freight trains to hardly anybody smoking at all. In the 90s smoking was supposed to cause every disease known to man (in addition to lung cancer) so we must be far healthier now than in, say, the late 60s now that those diseases have been eradicated, and yet I’ve seen no health zealots spiking the football on their victory 🤔
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