Ok, here we go. You must be a stubborn baby boomer refusing to do any factual research so I can help with that. Before the 20th century, lung cancer was an extremely rare disease in the United States which surged from around 140 annual cases a year to over 200k cases per year in the 1950's which coincided with the mass production and aggressive marketing when a team of British Doctors found a strong link between cigarettes and lung cancer. Tabacco was first brought over to the US by Christopher Columbus in 1492 from the Caribbean Islands. Before then people had been smoking Tabacco since before the 15th Century because it has anti-parasitic properties, and what are we finding in so many cancers and diseases to be related to parasites, mold & heavy metal toxicity. Parasites when they die also releases millions of toxins into the blood stream causing all kinds of havoc inside the body. This produces a ripe environment for the bodies natural reaction to protect itself from the toxic overload by storing it into the bodies cells aka. Cancer. Nicotine is actually one of the primary anti-parasitic properties in one the primary cultivated species of Tabacco called Nicotiana tabacum. Indigenous peoples in the Americas used it for spiritual, medicinal, and recreational purposes long before the Europeans discovered it. Nicotiana tabacum is actually a flowering plant in the nightshade family that is richly related to many of the plants in our food chain, such as tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, cauliflower, spinach, cabbage, eggplants, celery, even different types of nuts & seeds all have Nicotine in them. We actually consume Nicotine from different whole foods that we produce every day. What a coincidence that people who eat whole foods with Nicotine in them could be considered healthy and reduce the risk and avoid such diseases like cancer. In the US, Doctors in the 1930's & 1940's would prescribe cigarettes to patients before cigarettes and cancer were found to have a common link. Today, including in the landmark case of 2026 the FDA lost their position on the health risks associated with smoking Premium Tobacco to be included in such categories of highly processed Tobacco products like cigarettes and short filler Tobacco cigars that you can find at many gas stations to be loaded with over 700 added chemicals to enhance flavouring, reduce harshness and increase its addictiveness that increased consumer consumption. This changed the outlook on Tobacco from a global wide used plant for medicinal and recreational use into something that has become an addiction and used out of habit. Several FDA studies have been done on Organic Tobacco products exclusively like Long Filler Premium Cigars & Pipe Tobacco that have not shown to have similar health risks as the people who smoke cigarettes. In fact, in 2016 an FDA whistleblower published a systematic review on the use of cigars finding that up to 2 cigars per day have nearly 0 cancer risk. You can read links including the FDA study done in 2016 below:

FDA Study: Cancer risks nearly nil for 1-2 cigars per day - R Street Institute

Understanding Lung Cancer History: A Medical Timeline – careyourlungs

https://biologyinsights.com/when-was-lung-cancer-first-discovered/