I understand tobacco and chew and vapes aren’t good for you, because of all the other shit in there, but is nicotine itself as a chemical bad for you?
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I have high blood pressure, and I take meds to help alleviate it. I’m also a smoker. The reaction of my healthcare providers when I smoked just before a doctor’s appointment vs. one where I deliberately avoided smoking a couple of hours beforehand was night and day. For the first, they wanted to put me in an ambulance and send me to the ER. Didn’t believe me when I said there was no chest pain. That’s *with* blood pressure medication. The second, it was just a boring, routine screening, with the typical low-key scolding that I should stop smoking.
Obviously, this is anecdotal, but at least for me it seems to put my blood pressure through the roof.
Edit: This space is reserved for the plethora of anecdotes I can share about all of the nastiness not related to OP’s pure question (nicotine, the chemical).
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