I smoked cigs for more than 50 years, mostly unfiltered Lucky Strikes. Finally quit 4.5 years ago. One of the smartest things I ever did. I smoked weed for some 45 of those years, though never mixed in tobacco, and another 4 years of vaping. I'm also a drinker, mostly beer, mostly IPAs and Belgians. (No, I'm not a degenerate, and was a CEO of two corporations for most of my working life, and never once toked up before or during working hours and only drank with the occasional fancy lunch out. I'm a serious recreationist!) Sometimes the combo of weed, tobaccy, and booze would take over and I'd get the whirlies or get sick, sometimes in frightening ways. Now I'm smoking stronger dope and drinking higher alcohol double IPAs and Belgian tripels, but I haven't had the whirlies or gotten sick once since I quit cigs. Plus I just feel better not smoking tobacco and now vaping my weed. I'm 70 years old and when I retired I wanted to continue biking up steep mountain roads, hiking into the alpine zone, and skiing in a raging blizzard. I'm doing all three. Fuck Combustion. Fuck Tobacco.
I spend part of the year at my place in far northern Canada. My closest doper buddy up there almost always rolls his js with tobacco unless he knows in advance I'm going to join him. Since we see each other like two out of every three days, once or twice a month to be social I'll end up blowing one of his spleefs with him. I really enjoy the high, but it will typically mean no outdoor adventures later that day, some coughing that night, and slightly sore lungs the next day. On the other hand, when he and or my other doping buddies visit with me, I always haul out one of my vapes. Particularly this last summer when I copped some outstanding stuff on my way up and also brought my ultra-cleaned favorite(VC, Crafty, Fury2) vapes up with me for the first time(I leave a Boundless CF and a Pulsar APX up there), my buddies, who had been skeptical of vaping, were quite impressed. At least one of these rough-and-tumble guys got himself a vape, a Utillian, has now started vaping.