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

The byproducts of the process of combustion of almost any organic substance could give you cancer. That is if you are exposed to it frequently enough. So with that in mind, smoking anything ( consumed after burning ) would give you cancer for sure.

Also the Hot smoke you are referring to and the cigarette ingredients are the same thing.