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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 375407"><p>puros-bran. The anti tobaccco people love that line about there being <em>n</em> number of chemicals in tobacco. That most of these are organic and occur in multitudes of things we eat is seldom mentioned.</p><p></p><p>The real villain in tobacco smoke is undoubtedly Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines or TSNAs. There is not a shadow of doubt that this stuff causes cancer. The risk to us from TSNAs is orders of magnitude greater than anything else in tobacco. </p><p></p><p>Lungs are special, as has been noted earlier. Not only are they delicate tissues but the vast exchange rate of gases and substances across the linings means these TSNAs have a significantly more drastic effect in the lungs. And not just in the lungs, because the lungs distribute these things throughout the body, the effects are not contained. Nasal snuff for example is absolutely safe. In the 400 or so years of its use there has been only one 'casualty' of nasal snuff use, and that was some halfwit who spent a lifetime jamming it into his ears.</p><p></p><p>Taking tobacco smoke into the lungs is REALLY dangerous. I am not in the business of telling anyone what they can or can't do, but this isn't an issue of good tobacco/bad tobacco. All tobacco contains cancer causing TSNAs. The important distinction is between inhaling and not inhaling tobacco smoke.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 375407"] puros-bran. The anti tobaccco people love that line about there being [i]n[/i] number of chemicals in tobacco. That most of these are organic and occur in multitudes of things we eat is seldom mentioned. The real villain in tobacco smoke is undoubtedly Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines or TSNAs. There is not a shadow of doubt that this stuff causes cancer. The risk to us from TSNAs is orders of magnitude greater than anything else in tobacco. Lungs are special, as has been noted earlier. Not only are they delicate tissues but the vast exchange rate of gases and substances across the linings means these TSNAs have a significantly more drastic effect in the lungs. And not just in the lungs, because the lungs distribute these things throughout the body, the effects are not contained. Nasal snuff for example is absolutely safe. In the 400 or so years of its use there has been only one 'casualty' of nasal snuff use, and that was some halfwit who spent a lifetime jamming it into his ears. Taking tobacco smoke into the lungs is REALLY dangerous. I am not in the business of telling anyone what they can or can't do, but this isn't an issue of good tobacco/bad tobacco. All tobacco contains cancer causing TSNAs. The important distinction is between inhaling and not inhaling tobacco smoke. [/QUOTE]
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