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Re:Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers by bb88 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:27PM (#15393612)
With cigarettes, it's the burning that creates the issue, as the excessive amounts of heat create the carcinogens and the smoke.
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Re:Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers by hwillis on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:49PM (#15394956)
It's not just the burning, many toxic chemicals are already present and the processing[1] makes it worse. The processing converts things like nicotine, and happens at relatively low temperatures- lower than those in vaporizers. Plus, keep in mind that nicotine is in tobacco as a poison for insects. Tobacco doesn't want to be consumed by humans either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco-specific_nitrosamines

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Re:Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers by DanBC on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:28PM (#15394191)
Chewing tobacco is still carcinogenic.
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Re:Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers by gertef on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:13PM (#15394630)
What in tobacco makes tobacco so bad, compared to all the other plants and animals people chew on?
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Re:Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers by bb88 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:37PM (#15394840)
But perhaps not because of the nicotine.

http://www.medicinenet.com/smokeless_tobacco/article.htm

To me it's unclear whether or not nicotine itself is actually bad.

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Re:Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers by DanBC on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @04:19PM (#15395801)
I haven't said nicotine is carcinogenic.
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