Just to throw you off balance, Dr Bhate.
I just read that Ayurveda actually recommends 3 puffs of "smoking" 8 times a
day.
They recommend smoking, but not necessarily of nicotine !!!
All the information that you have mentioned is absolutely true,
and over smoking will cause all the problems mentioned, besides problems of
passive smoking on the rest of the family and the society too.
durgesh mankikar