Exactly. This is part of the reason it's easy to say cigarettes are harmful because of chemicals x y and z. Nicotine is not so bad, and neither is tobacco. Howe

Exactly. This is part of the reason it's easy to say cigarettes are harmful because of chemicals x y and z. Nicotine is not so bad, and neither is tobacco. However, when burning anything, a random variable is created where chemical instability correlates to probability of creation correlates to cancer risk. So you get a spectrum of chemicals, badder ones less often. But consume enough and probability will play out, and the laws of odds will cancer you up.