Hi BSD. lol Heroin relieves stress, too. And if drinking gasoline relieved stress and the oil companies bribed their way into marketing an ingestible product, would that make it contain a “benefit”?
Medically speaking, there are about 70 poisons that are ingested when tobacco is burned. Additionally, it is now known cigarettes contain radiation from radon that develops in the soil specifically of tobacco plants. This fact is known to the cig companies. Removing the radon would require a chemical which removes the nicotine. So they have decided against removing the radon.
In light of that information, I vote there are no benefits. Yours sounds like the rationalization of one addicted. lol. Well, I hope you quit soon, seriously. And if I could give you a vitamin, where in one swallow you would be cured of that addiction, would you take it? Even though you say cigs relieves stress?
Hi Jothar: Wrongo! There are shades of gray with addictions and ALL are not equal. The thread was asking which is worse, which requires evaluation of the differences, and not a blunt overgeneralization. And I am not even comparing cigs to internet. I am addressing the specific addition. Both are bad. And you are right about internet and marriage. Terrible! But that does not lead to countless tragic and fatal diseases. SO, when you compare the problems of internet to cigs. Hands down its cigs.
There is a way to go online and learn something new and have a positive experience. There is no way to smoke even one puff of a cig without it causing immediate damage throughout the body, of which can also be passed on, c”vs, to future generations via genes. Yep, that is right!