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Scientists Engineered a Plant to Produce 5 Different Psychedelics at Once
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Actually the tobacco plant species used in scientific research has hardly any nicotine, 10–100× less than the species used by commercial industry, and it's not naturally carcinogenic either. The carcinogens come from all the other shit cigarette companies add to it.
That and exposing your lungs to the products of combustion regularly.
There's no evidence linking cannabis smoke to lung cancer. I don't see why tobacco would be any different if it wasn't covered in radioactvity and poison and radioactive poison.
Use some form of water pipe, it cleans a LOT of the worst stuff out of the smoke, without disturbing the good stuff. All that goo that builds up on your bong? That would have been in your lungs.
Personally I only dab solventless hash oil (most of the time) at 485 F.
Cannabis smoke is not a recognised carcinogenic agent. That is different from saying there's no evidence linking it to cancer.
It's smoke in the lungs on a regular basis. That's plenty evidence.
That's the opposite of evidence, it's actually a total lack of evidence... Just because you feel like it should be true doesn't make it true.
Okay, provide said evidence then.
I'm aware benzene and other byproducts of combustion should increase lung cancer risk, but a wide swathe of studies has failed to ever conclusively establish a connection between cannabis smoke and cancer.
(Also cannabis in California actually is labeled with a cancer risk... not due to smoking it, but due to the presence of the terpene Myrcene, which is why you'll find the warning even on edibles. Still, that's just California being California, as I understand it the warning is there simply because Myrcene has a benzene ring in its chemical structure like many aromatic compounds do.)
Are you honestly asking for a source on inhaling smoke being bad for you?
Lay of that pipe mate
Nothing then, got it