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?
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It’s both. The smoke has active radicals that will damage your lungs all by themselves. It also has particulates that will irritate your lungs, but your lungs are designed to deal with that. The nicotine paralyzes the little hairs that kick out the pollutants, so nicotine+crap mean more crap longer in your lungs.
TL;DR: nicotine teams up to help other carcinogens hurt you worse.
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