Re:The king of smokers
by bogomipz on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:23AM
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I agree I think the comparison has to be organic tobacco like pouch tobacco or American Spirits which don't have all the additives such as saltpeter, bromine and chlorine. Its hard to believe though that ingesting one type of smoke vs another is any better for you.
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Re:The king of smokers
by Synaesthesia on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:47AM
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But tobacco itself is pernicious, and toxic - it's can be mixed with water and used as an insecticide.
Pure nicotine can be used as an insecticide and generally doesn't have the adverse-to-humans effects of smoking, so that's not really good evidence of tobacco being nasty.
There are other things you can mix with water and use an insecticide, too. Caffeine, for one. There are other reasons that we don't use it, but mostly practical ones (it washes away easily, it also kills things in the soil).