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Smoking causes cancer not because of "tobacco" or smoking or not "THC" (your cite) but because of free radicals that are released during the process of burning
by fnl 16y ago
Smoking causes cancer not because of "tobacco" or smoking or not "THC" (your cite) but because of free radicals that are released during the process of burning these carbohydrates that are - especially - joined to additives, such as benzoates and their chemical brothers. They then incorporate in your lung's DNA: Essentially, smoking _anything_ that burns at these high degrees of temperature will most likely create molecules in a state that replace your default circular ribonucleic acids. And that are the agents of cancer. And, btw, (because of my utter ignorance to this health issue that will most likely kill me) I am a smoker, too...
- joeyo 16y agoThe story can't be that simple. If so, you wouldn't expect there to be an increased cancer risk from the use of smokeless tobacco.
- fnl 16y agoWell, yes, but have you looked at the incident rates? And, mainly, cigarettes are far more dangerous than anything else not because of tobacco, but because of chemical additives such as phenolic acids the tobacco industry use as "perfumes" to make them smell and taste better. Those additives are far more carcinogenic than tobacco because of their circular nature making our cell machinery believe they are actual C/G/T/A's.