Re:E-cigarettes ‘Potentially as Harmful as Tobacco Cigarettes’
by stan_rogers on Monday June 12, 2017 @02:34PM
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Most of the harmful chemicals aren't additives, they're combustion products that would be there no matter how the tobacco is cured and processed.
Re:E-cigarettes ‘Potentially as Harmful as Tobacco Cigarettes’
by WorldMaker on Monday June 12, 2017 @04:44PM
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Alternate anecdote: my grandfather smoked pipe tobacco for as long and died of heart failure complications due to lifelong nicotine usage, after already dealing with lung cancer-related illness.
Pipe tobacco isn't that much "safer", either.
I went to an 80 year old's birthday party recently and he has been smoking since WW2 or thereabouts. His advice - get a pipe and buy tobacco from a proper tobacconist. In that way he avoids all the chemical horrors of regular hand rolling tobacco. Normally this stuff has flavours in it, stuff to make it burn and stuff to keep it moist. The difference is huge.
My advice to the government is to ban adulterated tobacco products so only dry rolling tobacco is for sale. Then to apply a minimum age to buy tobacco with this age rising one year every other year. In a relatively short period of time tobacco will become as rare as pipe smoking is.