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This is absolutely wrong[1]. Please don't spread dangerous falsehoods without researching first. Even American Spirit's website denies that "organic" or natura
by smt88 9mo ago
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-components/chemicals-every-tobacco-plant https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/products-ingredients-co...
- h33t-l4x0r 9mo agoThat article suggests that toxic chemicals are sometimes found where tobacco grows, but that would not be the case for my neighbor (I hope).
- cobblestone32 9mo agoWell... > In pure form, nicotine is a colorless to yellowish, oily liquid that readily penetrates biological membranes and acts as a potent neurotoxin in insects, where it serves as a antiherbivore toxin.
- deaux 9mo agoCan't similar be said for capsaicin?
- shawabawa3 9mo agoNote 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
- smt88 9mo ago> It's likely safer but not meaningfully enough to make much difference, as it's still obviously very bad for you There's no evidence that it's safer at all. Reynolds lost a big lawsuit over its American Spirit brand implying that their cigarettes are safer. If they could have provided evidence to the contrary, they would have. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2000/04/ftc-accepts-settlements-charges-alternative-cigarette-ads-are-deceptive https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2000/04/...
- array_key_first 9mo agoI doubt it's likely at all. The thing that makes tobacco dangerous is high temperature combustion and nicotine. You get BOTH in natural tobacco. The thousands of "chemicals" from cigarettes are not put in there. They come from combustion. Setting shit on fire makes chemicals turn into other chemicals, some of them very harmful. That's why many survivors of 9/11 later died from lung cancer.
- embedding-shape 9mo agoThat 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?
- smt88 9mo agoLiterally every source (including the tobacco companies themselves, who have been cowed by legal pressure) say that no cigarette is safer than any other. It's the tobacco itself that's the problem. This is the settlement that Natural American Spirit had to agree to because they couldn't provide evidence that additive-free cigarettes are any safer: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2000/04/ftc-accepts-settlements-charges-alternative-cigarette-ads-are-deceptive https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2000/04/...