I'm skeptical it will go that way. If you look at the history of smoking, wikipedia has

>Pipe smoking gradually became generally accepted as a cause of mouth cancers following work done in the 1700s.

ie. the negative effects were obvious for a long time. There's nothing like that with caffeine - if anything is seems to extend lifespan perhaps in humans and definately in Caenorhabditis elegans https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922918/