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| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
btw, anyone have any info on whether herbal cigarettes (that contain no tobacco/nicotine/ chemicals ) are safer for you? it's not so much the nicotine that i crave, just the act of smoking. |
They arent really safer...smoke is smoke, no matter what kind it isnt good for your lungs.
Now when you go to highschool and they do all of the scare mongering shit, and go like ohhh yeah theres battery fluid in cigs, and windex, and arsnic, and all of this other horrible stuff. Not that much of it is there in large amounts. I do realise that the baccy is treated with stuff so that it will burn slower, and other things, but many of these herbal cigs are treated with the same stuff, not all of them though.
The other place that lets them claim theres more crazy chemicals in cigs is the paper, the stuff they use to bleach the paper white, and dye it yellow has traces of chemicals in it. Obviously these herbal cigs use the same type of paper, so they would have those same chemicals.
Another place that the crazy chemicals come from are the filters, the synthetic material they are (or maybe were if they changed it) contained many chemicals, and the filter becomes heated bla bla bla... Most herbal cigs use the same filters (the kinds ive used at least) so again they will have those same risks.
Now obviously they are made of totally different plants, and different plants when smoked can harm the lungs worse than others (i think most of these herbals are pretty light) but I think its all pretty close in a sense. Oh, and remember they may claim they dont add any additional chemicals to the cigs, but they arent a very big monopoly, so I dont think they are getting checked on or anything. Even if they dont add additional chems to the cigs, you never know what crazy fertilizers they use to grow the plants in the first place.
So pretty much the only way that you know they are alot "safer" is that they arent physically addictive like niccotine. Neither is pot, but people can sure get hooked on it. It mainly just becomes a habit like drinking tea.
So anyways...get the vanilla ones.
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