Yes. I remember my brother used to say that he smoked roll-your-own tobacco, and so it had less chemicals added and was less damaging. I said to him once that I didn't think it was true, the major brands probably still add chemicals. He said yeah probably but I just like saying it. Hahah.

I do think the perils of smoking have been exaggerated to some extent. The tobacco lobby was trying to prove that smoking was healthy for you, so the pushback on the other side had to show how terrible it was, and so now we have this exaggerated idea of how bad it is. Not that I think it's a great idea, but I don't think it's quite as bad as they say.

The point in the post is, even if they know they're joking, sometimes they use these cute phrases to rationalise things to themselves, and I think we're all guilty of it to some extent.