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Merger proposal

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

To not merge Tobacco smoke and Tobacco smoking, on the grounds that the topics are distinct and worthy of separate discussion. Klbrain (talk) 17:39, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

I propose to merge tobacco smoke into this article. It seems redundant to the topic of this page. 150.250.5.26 (talk) 01:13, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

• I disagree. In my mind these are two quite broad topics that are independently notable. I think there is a lot to say independently about the act of smoking vs. the content, distriubution, history, and social and cultural connotations of tobacco smoke. --Tom (LT) (talk) 07:02, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
  • I agree, the page isn't that big and would fit right in with the rest. Good proposal. It would clean up a bit. Aquatic Ambiance (talk) 14:40, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
• Support merging Tobacco smoke in Tobacco smoking, or to delete Tobacco smoke. I have the impression that it was created as a WP:POVFORK to minimize the addictive potential of nicotine, please see concerns expressed at the talk page. —PaleoNeonate – 01:34, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
• This is already a kind of long article, and I'm not sure that adding to its length by merging in a table of chemical components would improve it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:36, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
• I think PaleoNeonate is right that Tobacco smoke was created as a biased fork article to downplay health risks. I've done some editing to counter this, removing content based on 1970s sources. I think there is a difference between tobacco smoke as a topic and tobacco smoking as a topic, so if the other article can focus on what is in the smoke rather than being about smoking then there's a purpose to a separate article. Fences&Windows 15:55, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

  Thanks for working on this, —PaleoNeonate – 12:41, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose. There's much more that can be written about tobacco smoke, including filtration of air contaminated with the smoke (eg - using HEPA/ULPA filters), remediation of sites, testing for presence of constituent particulates, etc. Even if this article was a POV fork (likely so, given sentence fragments such as "determine the taste and quality of the smoke", though I notice user Fences and Windows has already removed some questionable material), there's likely sufficient material and reliable sources to transform it into a comprehensive article in its own right. Mindmatrix 23:54, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose per Mindmatrix. Jusdafax (talk) 04:50, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Illustration of Tobacco Use by substitution of photograph of Jean Jacques Susini

Jean Jacques Susini (' a French political figure, militant and co-founder of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a paramilitary organization opposing Algerian independence from France' (https://en.wikipedia.org/Jean-Jacques_Susini) was an ultra-colonialist, Fascist murderer and founder of the OAS, 'meaning Secret Armed Organisation) ..... a far-right French dissident paramilitary organisation during the Algerian War. The OAS carried out terrorist attacks, including bombings and assassinations, in an attempt to prevent Algeria's independence from French colonial rule. Its motto was L’Algérie est française et le restera ("Algeria is French and will remain so").(https://en.wikipedia.org/Organisation_arm%C3%A9e_secr%C3%A8te ).

The article under discussion here attempts to be a sober chronicle of the history of Tobacco Smoking: the illustration of Susini (taken from his Misplaced Pages page) has nothing to do with this discussion: it is an attempt to infiltrate far-right propaganda onto Misplaced Pages and should be removed at once.

Paxton Quigley (talk) 17:20, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

That is all irrelevant. This article is on tobacco smoking, and that is what he is doing in this photo. --2001:8003:DDB1:C600:390F:5103:7184:18C (talk) 04:08, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

@Paxton Quigley: It's completely relevant, particularly as this IP user is a block-evading extreme right-wing vandal. I've removed the image. Graham87 07:32, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Smoking

What are the causes of smoking? 2001:4450:4647:1D00:8939:49B6:5989:A6DE (talk) 13:45, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Ingesting?

First sentence: "Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco and ingesting the resulting smoke" - ingesting is odd and implies smoke goes down the gastrointestinal tract. But I don't know a better word for absorbing through the oral mucosa and/or the lungs. CyreJ (talk) 10:26, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

A good point. I've also failed to come up with a more suitable word. We could turn to a phrase, like (e.g.) "Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco and processing the resulting smoke via or in the mouth", but it will be a struggle to compete with the conciseness of the current form. AlexGallon (talk) 16:58, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

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