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This would convince me to smoke death sticks tbh
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Lavender cigarettes sound fire though
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Campfires are smaller. A factory that just burned wood for no reason would have nasty ass emissions, so scale comes into play there. But yeah, there are like...super toxic fires and sorta toxic fires, there are no nom toxic fires.
Didn't know about the hookah thing, why is thst worse? I have heard stoners over extol the virtue of water filtration via bong cause theyre stoners and are dumb.
The other major aspect to consider when choosing between cigarettes and smoking other stuff is that cigarettes are a drug and herbal cigarettes arent. So if you're smoking herbal cigarettes you're just breathing smoke cause you like the smell. You're still doing the majority of the harm and not getting any of the fun.
Both Hookahs and Bongs use water-filtration which doesn't really do too much other than cool down the smoke, which actually is worse because then you can hold it in your lungs longer and with deeper breaths. The reason Hookah is dangerous is because it's combusted Tobacco but cooled, so it's all the bad things of cigarettes with no filter and vastly higher volumes held with deeper breaths for longer. Nobody holds cigarette smoke in a deep breath, but they do for Hookah/Weed.
I was comparing like-with-like to demonstrate that weed smoke is vastly less toxic and carcinogenic than tobacco smoke is, by order of magnitudes. Combusted Tobacco just has more carcinogens and tar. It's just a more harmful substance when inhaled via combusted smoke, objectively.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24836469/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8479631/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5896480/
https://pip.missouri.edu/Hookah/
Less harmful is still only relevant before a certain threshold. Weed also gets you high, unlike an herbal cigarette. I smoke cigarettes and joints, im smoking both at once rn cause i'm in flavor country. But there is a major major difference between 'if youre gonna smoke something weed is better than tabacco' and 'it's okay to smoke some stuff' and then two are often conflate or exaggerated by potheads, of which I am one but I will also totally smoke Crack if offered as well