Guys I know the answer to this.
Tobacco quality over the last fifty years has lowered to the extent it's basically something else altogether.
Modern tobacco manufacturing involves extracting the nicotine and other alkaloids (plants have an "alkaloid profile" which is all the pre nicotine chemicals on there way up the biosynthesis pathway to becoming nicotine, there are normally several other active alkaloids present and different ratios give different effects, that's why we have different marijuana strains),
Then just the nicotine is sprayed back on the denatured tobacco, to make the 16mg, 12mg, 8mg etc tobacco strengths, and some "tobacco" is just cabbage leaves sprayed with nicotine.
Commercial tobacco is of a similar grade to when prisoners spray tea leaves with their Nicorette inhalers , it's trash.
Even if it's real tobacco it's still GMOd for maximum nicotine content with insane additives added to mask the terrible quality.
Actual ceremonial grade traditional tobacco is a completely different thing, it's like comparing caffeine to cocaine.
I tracked down some organic heirloom variety tobacco and grew it at my house on organic mushroom compost and it was nothing like what you buy in stores and I have smoked all the "organic" varieties.
It had strong mood uplifting effects, sharpened your vision, strong anti anxiety effects, gave you physical energy etc, I had all my friends try it and it was the same.
If you have never smoked home grown tobacco the way it was grown when smoking was popular, you have nothing to compare it to.
But you are smoking prison tobacco.
