Is smoking tobacco acceptable in any school of Buddhism? Is smoking tobacco acceptable in any school of Buddhism?

I think it shouldn't be considered acceptable:


because of the fifth precept
because of the first precept (smoking is physically harmful, so trying to logically defend smoking is rationalizing suicide)
and because smoking is addictive.


The reality of smoking, as I see it, include:


400 chemicals poisoning your physical body
pictures of diseased lungs on cigarette packages in Canada
having a parent with emphysema spend the last ten years of life hooked to an oxygen tank
seeing someone die suddenly from a heart attack or complete heart failure
seeing someone go through chemotherapy with toxic chemicals to kill a cancer tumor and the hair loss and vomiting that comes with it
seeing people treated for cancer using radiation therapy that leaves behind second and third degree burns on the skin


Also, I think this is not exactly "craving", but rather, "addiction". The power that is has on us is purely a physical addiction: it is not due to the intentions (volition) which the mind creates, it is due to a physical chemical controlling the brain.

I find it amazing that Buddhists want to dance around the issue of addiction and their unwillingness to discuss addiction in modern terms. 
I challenge Buddhists to not hide from modern addiction problems using irrelevant Buddhist philosophy.
Is smoking tobacco acceptable in any school of Buddhism?

I read that smoking is done.

The Broken Buddha includes these (and other) references to smoking.



  No Sri Lankan monk
  would dare to smoke in public because this is believed to infringe the Vinaya but it is quite
  acceptable for them to chew tobacco. Thailand’s Thammayut sect likewise considers smoking to be
  contrary to Vinaya but the Mahaniky sect does not.


  A study released in
  2002 showed that the leading cause of death amongst Thai monks was smoking related illnesses. 


  For example, here in Burma, in the afternoon a
  Bhikkhu can drink iced mineral water but not hot water, must not eat fruit but can smoke a box of
  cigars, can eat jaggary but not onions, beetel nut and not coconut.


  When last in Upper Burma I noticed the
  number of Christian Missions that had sprung up, and when I asked a prominent man the reason he
  replied, ‘These missionaries have opened schools and hospitals and help us in many ways. They are
  doing the work of the Lord Buddha while our own Bhikkhus do nothing but sleep and smoke all
  day.’


  Thirdly. Food. The present food regulations observed by the Sangha do much more harm than good.
  They produce ill health, gluttony, bad habits, and dishonesty. Let me explain what I see almost
  daily. A Monk goes around with a bowl in the morning, gets meat, fish, fowl, rice, etc, food that
  heats the blood and has little nourishment. But he must eat it all before noon and then starve for
  eighteen hours, so he stuffs down much more usually than he can digest and so has to sleep for
  some hours after. Late in the afternoon he gets hungry and then has to chew tobacco, pan leaf and
  jaggery, and smoke innumerable cigarettes and cigars. Bad health often results, and while boys in
  day schools are taught that smoking is ruinous to health, in the Order they are actually encouraged
  to do so.


  In Ceylon
  and Burma for example, a Bhikkhu can smoke but must not drink beer, but in Tibet a monk drinks
  as much native beer as he pleases but never smokes, which is a most serious offence. 



Also this answer was from someone who is known as a monk. I think it's defensive about smoking, saying that:


Smoking is less harmful than cars, chocolate, or burgers (I think he means "less harm for others" rather than "less harm for the smoker")
The fifth precept is more about "heedlessness" and smoking (unlike e.g. alcohol) doesn't cause heedlessness
Sila ("virtue") is about not harming others; a recluse, smoking in private, is relatively harmless