Lungs heal damage from smoking

Re:Lungs heal damage from smoking by consumer451 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:32AM (#22189107)

Here is a rabbit hole regarding tobacco which I still don’t fully comprehend:

> Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Tobacco Industry’s Response to the Polonium-210 Issue https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2509609/

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=japan+lung+cancer+paradox!g

What is actually going on here?

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Re:Lungs heal damage from smoking by dr_dshiv on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:02AM (#22190232)

Wait, so is it in iqos and heated tobacco too? That would be huge. What about in Vapes made from tobacco?

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Re:Lungs heal damage from smoking by mschuster91 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @06:03AM (#22190511)

Anything made from natural sources will be contaminated to some degree. The only thing that should be (relatively) clean is fully synthetic vape stuff.

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Re:Lungs heal damage from smoking by PopeDotNinja on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:59AM (#22189473)

Man, that's trippy.

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Re:Lungs heal damage from smoking by jacobush on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:41AM (#22189646)

"lower levels of carcinogenic ingredients in Japanese cigarettes"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18420238

I get Fallout vibes here.

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Re:Lungs heal damage from smoking by blaser-waffle on Thursday January 30, 2020 @09:54AM (#22191650)

I'd consider glowing cigarettes, tbh

Plus that VATS bonus

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