What’s worse? The fact that you’re inhaling hot, smoke into your lungs? Or the fact that you’re inhaling actual cigarette ingredients (nicotine, tar, etc.) into your lungs?

Question

What increases ones chance of getting cancer and other respiratory complications? Is it just smoking anything e.g. normal paper, crack, weed, etc.? Or is it specifically smoking cigarette ingredients? If someone smoked anything else other than cigarettes, as much as cigarette smokers smoke cigarettes, would their likelihood to getting cancer be the same as that of a cigarette smoker?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Its the inhaling of combustible material and even more so combustion tobacco which messes you up. Nicotine is pretty inoffensive, much like caffeine.