It killed my son
There has been some research done in the States looking at a particular part of the brain called the insular and it might be linked to cigarette craving (they found that people who had suffered a stroke that had damaged the insular tended to crave cigarettes less)
Talor Gruenwald, the lead author on the new asthma study and researcher at Rewiring America, said the finding demonstrates that this is a real public health challenge that we have to address
Several studies, many of them funded by tobacco companies, have found that the vapor from HTPs contains significantly lower levels of harmful toxins like heavy metals, aldehydes, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons when compared to cigarette smoke
Clearly there would not be so many nicotinic receptors, or so many sources if nicotine were not a nutrient, but just like many other foods, when highly processed and concentrated, they can become detrimental to our health