I roll and smoke cigarrettes. (flue cured virginia tobacco) Also, in the past, I have smoked home grown and cured tobacco, but that's cuмbersome.

I used to inhale for decades but switched to puffing after temporary respiratory problems. Since I was used to occasionally puff cigars it was easy to give up inhaling.

I am convinced that tobacco dispels many a disease.

You said immediately before that that you got respiratory problems when you used to inhale tobacco before, so I'm not sure what you mean...

My temporary respiratory problems unambiguously were not caused by smoking but by draft, cold air.

What type of cigarettes do you smoke? I used to roll my own cigarettes. The brand I most often smoked was Drum. When I smoked factory-made cigarettes, I preferred Kamel Reds, but I smoked all different kinds of Camels also. The best cigarette I ever smoked was a Cohiba, but I never regularly smoked them because they were illegal. I quit a little over a decade ago.

I am convinced that tobacco dispels many a disease.

I think you may be right.  Years ago someone told me that cigarette smokers' lungs were coated with tar and that didn't let bacteria and viruses into the blood stream.  Who knows?

Of all my relatives, the ones that smoked didn't die till they were between 88 and 106 years old.  The ones that didn't smoke died in their 60's (they were also the one's who watched their diet took supplements etc)

I think most people believe smoking can kill you.  I believe they bought into the big non smoking campaign of the early 90's when the powers that be wanted to keep the masses focused on something while the LGB,etc pushed their agenda through without the masses realizing it.  I also believe the number of deaths from smoking are altered to fit their agenda, just like the present day virus.

Is smoking good for you?  Who really knows but it's expensive.

P.S.  My OBGYN is in her 90's and still smoking
      Almost every priest I knew  pre Vat II smoked and they all lived to their 90's.  Two are still alive.

I have a lung condition that sometimes makes it difficult to breath so I have never smoked. 

I think you may be right.  Years ago someone told me that cigarette smokers' lungs were coated with tar and that didn't let bacteria and viruses into the blood stream.  Who knows?

Of all my relatives, the ones that smoked didn't die till they were between 88 and 106 years old.  The ones that didn't smoke died in their 60's (they were also the one's who watched their diet took supplements etc)

I think most people believe smoking can kill you.  I believe they bought into the big non smoking campaign of the early 90's when the powers that be wanted to keep the masses focused on something while the LGB,etc pushed their agenda through without the masses realizing it.  I also believe the number of deaths from smoking are altered to fit their agenda, just like the present day virus.

Is smoking good for you?  Who really knows but it's expensive.

P.S.  My OBGYN is in her 90's and still smoking
      Almost every priest I knew  pre Vat II smoked and they all lived to their 90's.  Two are still alive.

That's very interesting.

My grandfather has smoked at least a pack a day his entire life and he just turned 90. He's gotten his lungs checked several times and they're normal.

My mom has also smoked her entire life and she's in her 60's, never had any problems either.

I will say that their skin does look more wrinkled than it probably should, though.

I started smoking cigarettes at a fairly young age, but quit (and switched to chewing tobacco) around 20 or 21.  I experienced a respiratory injury in my late teens that made smoking quite difficult and unenjoyable.
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I smoked what I could get my hands on as a minor, although had a preference for Pall Malls.  I always liked their branding ('In Hoc Signe Vinces' and 'ad astra').  Toward the end of my 'smoking career' I switched to rolling my own (by hand and unfiltered).  I sometimes smoked Drum but more often than not I smoked Bali Shag, which I found to typically be the freshest.  My recommendation to smokers who roll their own is to purchase some humidor or another (it doesn't have to be an expensive one, they sell [or at least used to sell] humidor pouches that were like a sandwich sized-zip lock bag, perfect for a pouch of rolling tobacco, and helped keep it nice and sealed and fresh]). 
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When I was about fifteen I worked with a couple of Levantines (one was my age, one a bit older).  They were from Jordan, if I recall correctly.  They told me that they were scandalized by American smoking habits ('scandalized' is my word, not theirs).  Apparently their standards for the freshness of tobacco were much higher than ours-- they would (so they said) throw a pack of cigarettes away without finishing it if it was deemed too stale.  I, of course, had never even considered that something like tobacco could be more or less fresh.  But the more I thought about it the more I realized they were right (at the very least, about the staleness of Big Tobacco products).  Who knows how long that pack you bought sat in inventory, then on a truck, and then on a shelf?  This realization was partially responsible for my transition to rolling tobacco and certain changes in my own habits to secure the freshest smoking tobacco I could.