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Tobacco is a plant! A wonderfully aromatic plant …
by wtbob 10y ago
Tobacco is a plant!
A wonderfully aromatic plant …
- mkagenius 10y agoCooking and eating it won't have the same effect (cancer wise) as smoking it.
- quesera 10y agoChewing tobacco does bad things.
- zeveb 10y agoI wonder if that's due to the other stuff typically added to chewing tobacco. It'd be interesting if tobacco could be safer, but isn't, because the manufacturers don't want to incur the expense and anti-tobacco folks want to keep people from smoking at all, not make it safer (c.f. vaping, which is — I think — basically harmless and yet is banned as much as smoking is).
- striking 10y agoAccording to the American Cancer Society: > The most harmful cancer-causing substances in smokeless tobacco are tobacco-specific nitrosamines. > Cancers linked to the use of smokeless tobacco include: * Mouth, tongue, cheek, and gum cancer * Cancer in the esophagus * Pancreatic cancer You can also get other kinds of mouth and tooth problems, and of course nicotine is still a definite health risk. If there were a way to make tobacco healthy, I think the manufacturers would have spared no expense to do so, because the death of a customer prevents them from spending more money on what is sold. (No idea about anti-vaping people, though.)
- pessimizer 10y agoNone of these are true for snus, and the American Cancer Society hasn't been the most trustworthy party on tobacco (although they should be.) https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=swedish%20snus https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=swedish%20snus The Lancet article is good, but there's a universal consensus.
- pessimizer 10y agoIt's based on roasting/burning it, the same reason why meat is cancer-causing. That's also why Swedish snus probably isn't cancer causing, because instead of being roasted, the tobacco is steam pasteurized. I can't imagine that cigarettes would work with steamed leaves. edit: And you'd have to vape the steamed leaf cigarettes, of course.