[lapinot]

Almost all of the bad stuff in cigarette smoke aren't specific to tobacco, for example tar and carbon-monoxide. Nicotine is bad because it creates a strong addiction, but "apart from that" afaik there's not much to it (still weakens the heart, probably on levels similar to coffee or tea). Most of the physical damage is done by repeatedly inhaling smoke (aggravated by highly incomplete combustion).

[shwinnabego]

Don’t disagree with any of that. But breaking the addiction is step one, no?

[srtjstjsj]

That's what nicotine treatment is for.

If someone has already broken the nicotine addiction, why would they need to smoke non-nicotine?

These things seem to have none of the benefits of cigarettes.

[shwinnabego]

Part of what makes breaking the addiction so difficult is the habit of smoking + oral fixation, so this is meant to be used in conjunction with NRT