Of course, I should've phrased my comment differently- I specifically meant the usage of nicotine. The most common method of taking nicotine is smoking, the government got behind all of the anti-smoking shit for a variety of reasons (money is a big one, of course), but I think they also didn't want the positive effects of nicotine to be widely known. Post is also a little sarcastic, I just really distrust the government so if they said "not cutting your dick off is bad for you", I might briefly consider cutting my dick off. But yeah inhaling particles from something that is on fire is almost always harmful, but if it's just a little bit here and there, it's no different from being gathered around a fire every night, or living in a small city.