To be honest, I am using both (cigarettes and alcohol) heavily.
I cannot understand people who are smoking weed tho. I will repeat myself, but I'm 33 years old and I never smoked weed in my life. I just cannot accept it. In the 90s when I was in high school I had many classmates and friends who smoked. Many times I discussed various things with them and their brains looked fried.
You just cannot conduct normal conversation with people who are smoking weed regularly. I don't want to offend anybody... it's just my opinion.
Cigarettes: Kills you with NO benefit to yourself at all (they may make you FEEL relaxed for a minute, but they actually increase your heart rate). This is coming from someone who smoked cigarettes for almost 20 years.
Alcohol: Can be kinda fun, but will destroy your liver and kill you slowly and painfully. Drunk drivers kill TONS. Guys are always beating their wives while drunk ect ect ect (I could go on for a while)
Cannabis: Absolutely NO health risks if taken via vapor or edibles. It has COUNTLESS medicinal uses with NO harmful side effects. It is 100% natural. I wont even get into the uses for the cannabis plant other than the buds. (I know how to "save the rainforests".
In other words, I cannot understand people who are NOT smoking weed that would rather drink and smoke cigarettes heavily. And I HAVE used alcohol and cigarettes so I have something to base shit on other than ignorant talk...
Like I said - it's just my opinion. Let's put it that way: Scientists have never been on Venus, but they talk about her. It's called observation. And then again.. if I decide to drink alcohol, I am not asking for your money or liver for it.
Same applies for cigarettes. Different people - different vices.
P.S. In Bulgaria we have something like national drink called rakia. Thousands of people mainly in villages are prepairing it by themselves. I know literally 100s of cases of old people (by old I mean 80+ years old) drinking 50-100 milliliters every single day. All of them say that it is healthy (and it must be, because we are not talking about 1-2 people and they are OLD and ALIVE). I know other cases of people who never drinked or smoked, but died young. Like I previously said - it depends on the person.