Do Hobbits get Lung Cancer?

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hickli

The hobbits had no idea that athelas was any more than a weed.

That doesn't matter. Things can be good for you even if you dont know they are. Of cousre, there is the opposite, the placebo...
But I don't think athelas was one, especially since, Merry and Eowyn (for example, there were more cases), were in shock when the athelas was used on them