Lol, well, that's quite a bit of irrelevant information you just posted. As for idiocy, I'm apparently at least a tad smarter than you. Do you make it a habit of using cherry picked or ancient information to make a point. For that matter, do you really think plucking a few poor doctors out of history is representative of the profession? But lets try this point by point since you think you're so smart.
1. You realize you posted a marketing piece from a tobacco company that simply says that brand was less irritating. Who knows, that may have been true. Long ago doctors did not understand the link between smoking and lung cancer. Certainly not from 1930 which is when your ad was published. That didn't change until the 50's. Those are facts that you should have realized before making your ignorant statement.
2. Why are you pulling out tidbits of info, mostly about the 19th century, as if it is representative of anything today. That said, everything you cited wasn't bad, they simply didn't understand it yet. For instance, using heroin for a cough. It would help a cough. I have a chronic couch and a few times a year it gets bad enough that I have to be on narcotics for a week to calm it down again. Over time, they learned how to use it properly. The same goes for shock treatments and cocaine and the vibrator you're referring too isn't quite the same think we think of today. You have a bad habit of superficially looking at something, doing no actual research and then, even though your info is effectively incorrect in context, you have the audacity to call someone else an idiot. The irony of that is amusing. You are correct that fen-phen was a terrible mistake.
3. Those guys are horrible, that must mean every doctor is horrible. Thanks, I had no idea. Btw, not to defend flip flop but we had no idea how HIV could and could not be transmitted in the beginning.
4. Now, we usually get along well so I have no idea why you thought it was necessary to call me an idiot. Please don't do that again. I don't mind full scale wars on here but I'd rather just discuss issues.