I still like the dark chocolate, alcohol and apple diet to cut heart disease. ;)
There have also been studies that showed that smoking reduces the risk of Alzheimers, which was promptly buried, instead of continued to see if there is something they could extract from tobacco and turn it into medicine.
I think some people just don't want others to enjoy life.
Tobacco tea is a well known natural pesticide for gardening. Thus, it should be harmful to the spiders that spin old timer cobwebs. At least, that will be my thesis for federal funding.