What are the benefit of not using tobacco?

Answer 1

Like so many things, it doesn't have to be all or nothing. Cigarettes are so deadly for two reasons. One, because of the way they're smoked. That is, people are inhaling deep lungfuls of smoke all day. There's nothing special about tobacco. Inhaling smoke into your lungs is bad for you. Movie producers have gotten into the practice of using herbal cigarettes during shoots where smoking is portrayed. This is a ridiculous and absurd practice, based purely on politics, as inhaling any kind of smoke is bad for health, and herbal cigs may be worse, for all anyone knows.

The other reason is that the cigarettes most people, at least in the US, are smoking are only about sixty-percent tobacco. You can find quality, pure tobaccos, such as Dutch halfzware in tobacco stores, but it's still inhaled smoke. About seventy-percent of cigarette smokers end up with a smoking-related disease eventually.

As Paracelsus taught us, poison is in the dose. This applies to so-called second-hand smoke, as well. Many people are under the impression that the scientific case has been made for second-hand smoke. A little Googling, if not common sense, would disabuse the curious of that notion.

Quality cigars, on the other hand, are not inhaled. The mortality rate for cigar smokers from cancer is much, much lower than for cigarette smokers. If you go to, for instance, the CDC web site, you'll see everything about cigars except actual statistics. Curious omission, no?

Pipe smokers have the same mortality rate as non-smokers. Pipe smokers do not inhale. Statistics about pipe and cigar smokers is hard to come by, though.

Users of snus also have very low cancer mortality rates, similar to non-tobacco users.

You make a choice about tobacco. Are you willing to possibly trade a few years of your life for a few decades of tobacco enjoyment?

Answer 2

Tobacco use leads most commonly to diseases affecting the heart and lungs, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (including emphysema and chronic bronchitis), and cancer (particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, and pancreatic cancer). It also causes peripheral vascular disease and hypertension. The effects depend on the number of years that a person smokes and on how much the person smokes. Starting smoking earlier in life and smoking cigarettes higher in tar increases the risk of these diseases. Also, environmental tobacco smoke, or secondhand smoke, has been shown to cause adverse health effects in people of all ages.[4] Cigarettes sold in underdeveloped countries tend to have higher tar content, and are less likely to be filtered, potentially increasing vulnerability to tobacco-related disease in these regions.

Answer 3

They want to live cheaper, longer, healthier lives.