[unglaublich]

Plain tobacco leaves are much less dangerous for your health than the highly engineered commercial cigarettes that have additives that increase addictiveness, inhibit coughing, "improve taste", improve shelf life, etc.

[smt88]

This is absolutely wrong[1]. Please don't spread dangerous falsehoods without researching first.

Even American Spirit's website denies that "organic" or natural tobacco is any safer.

1. https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/products-ingredients-co...

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That article ends with "The bottom line: there is no such thing as safe tobacco" which seems to try to answer a different question.

As far as I can tell, that page never actually tries to answer "Are "all-natural" cigarettes less harmful than ones with additives?".

Neither are healthy for you, yes, we get that, but the question is if one is slightly less unhealthy?

[shawabawa3]

Note that it doesn't deny that it's _any safer_. It says it's still not safe

These are not the same thing

It's likely safer but not meaningfully enough to make much difference, as it's still obviously very bad for you

[h33t-l4x0r]

That article suggests that toxic chemicals are sometimes found where tobacco grows, but that would not be the case for my neighbor (I hope).

[iberator]

Citation needed. Cigarettes have one huge advantage: filter.

[cobblestone32]

Here's a citation about filters.

> The overwhelming majority of independent research shows that filters do not reduce the harms associated with smoking - a fact understood by tobacco industry scientists in the 1960s. In fact, filters may increase the harms caused by smoking by enabling smokers to inhale smoke more deeply into their lungs.

Also, plain common sense will tell you that inhaling toxic smoke through a small piece of paper is not much healthier than inhaling toxic smoke directly.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9340047/