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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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