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The image conflates nicotine and smoking, practically all the complications are the result of smoking , not of nicotine by itself. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10883537/ https://www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/news/nicotine--no-more-harmful-to-health-than-caffeine-.html https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/vaping-to-quit-smoking/vaping-myths-and-the-facts/ https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/e-cigarettes Nicotine is deemed an essential medicine by the WHO (page 56) https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/371090/WHO-MHP-HPS-EML-2023.02-eng.pdf Nicotine is found in common vegetables and other food products https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199308053290619 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864980/ https://ift.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1750-3841.12339
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