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I think it is true. The evidence is that steam-cured smokeless tobacco (e.g. snus) presents few health risks compared to tobacco cigarettes and fire-cured smokeless tobacco. In any case the safety or otherwise of smokeless tobacco is not particularly relevant to e-cigarettes since typically the...

Why?

The health risks from smoking are almost entirely due to the combustion products of tobacco. In itself nicotine appears to be no more harmful than caffeine. I'm not sure why you think that making vaping devices more expensive and less available -- for that is the likely outcome of requiring...

It should be acknowledged that the single accusation against Kenneth Clarke was disproven well before he retired, with honour, from the cabinet.

Why so pessimistic? Deaths through violence have been declining worldwide for a long time, and indicators of poverty and development have steadily improved. There will certainly be crises to be dealt with, but the outlook for global peace and prosperity has never been better.

Max: It is not in dispute that spending in Scotland exceeds revenue -- the UK is running a budget deficit -- nor that it is true that the ratio of spending to revenue is above the UK mean, but this is the case for all parts of the UK apart from the SE of England and Scotland is in a better...

I'm not sure if the OP is serious, but it so far from reality and from the tone of the debate in Scotland that I suggest that maxparrish gets his "facts" from a broader range of sources. The narrative that Scotland is an impoverished slacker suckling on the teat of the benevolent English...

Some of the prejudice against online polling is rooted in the belief that sampling error is the most important source of bias in a survey, and that so long as your sampling frame is broad and representative you don't have to put a lot of effort into weighing the raw results. This might be a...

Two points. (1) The per capita immigrant population of the USA is lower than that of many developed countries. (2) The performance of the USA in international education comparisons is not very different from most other developed countries: small differences are overblown and different...

I've gone without for a couple of days without any problem, but I don't feel bad about going back since I enjoy at and it isn't a particularly harmful or expensive habit.

Perhaps you should change your goal from "giving up nicotine" to "smoking less"? I was a heavy smoker for 30 years and had tried all sorts of methods for giving up: gum, patches, drugs, etc. All of these turned out to be unsatisfying replacements for smoking and I eventually ended up smoking...