Surely things can be removed from cigarettes that will make them healthier.
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As other’s have said. Burning biological material produces carcinogens, most notably PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) it also produces soot particulates that get in your lungs, and CO, which gets into your bloodstream. The local research lab uses PAH’s as part of the studies. They refer to their storage location as “the cabinets of death.” There’s simply no way to remove those without basically removing all the stuff that people smoke to get.
I’ll add that this is also true for ANY biological material. Marijuana doesn’t get a free pass. It might even be worse because of the way people hold it in their lungs.
Inhaling smoke is bad, always. No matter what you remove from cigarettes, lighting them on fire and inhaling the smoke is bad for you.
Vapes are basically cigarettes without inhaling smoke. Instead, you’re only inhaling the extremely addictive and unhealthy nicotine by itself. This is “healthier” than smoking, but still unhealthy. There is no way to make cigarettes “healthier” than that unless you remove the nicotine…and then they’re not cigarettes anymore.
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>Why can’t cigarettes be made healthy?
They can be. Open the garbage can. Toss in the cigarettes. Voila… healthy.
Because the thing that makes them unhealthy is *breathing smoke*.
Burning *any* organic material makes smoke that is bad for your lungs. Aka breathing any type of smoke from anything is bad for you. If you took out everything unhealthy from a cigarette you’d be inhaling through an empty tube.
Because smoke from burnt organic matter, or smoke from *any* source is not supposed to be in your lungs. The only thing that’s supposed to go in your lungs is air. Anything else is going to harm you. Smoking is, well, smoke. It’s impossible to make something that’s fundamentally not supposed to go in your lungs safe to go in your lungs. That’s like asking why can’t we make bullets healthy.
Not healthy per se, but it has been created before. Called the safe cigarette. I don’t recall the name of the company, but it was scrapped because all the other cigs would ‘suddenly be unsafe’.
It’s easier than you’d think. Next time you finish a pack, carefully cut apart the glued sections and unfold the packaging flat. Trace it on white cardboard.
Get some clip art of mandalas or flowers or some shit, and make a little logo, like “YOGA SMOKES, the healthy natural cigarettes”. Print it out and glue it to the cardboard.
Carefully fold and glue your new box back into a package, empty a fresh pack of smokes into it.
And – there ya go, healthy, natural YOGA SMOKES.
They have some products on the market that heat the tobacco but don’t burn it. You still get the nicotine and flavor but not all the carcinogens that come from the combustion. IQOS is one such product but I believe there are others just don’t know the names.
I mean you could probably make some negligible heath improvements to cigarettes. How would you even quantify that? In the end burning stick make carcinogens.
Although I have to say, one thing that trips me out is the government has mandated through regulation that cigarettes contain even more dangerous chemicals when they started requiring “Fire Safe Cigarettes”. The intention of the regulation is to prevent house and other fires by mandating that cigarettes extinguish themselves if they aren’t being actively smoked. They do this by embedding plastic/glue in rings in the paper. When the switch occurred (10 years ago now?) many, many smokers noticed a change in taste of their smokes. Most preferred the old (non FSC) flavor. I can only imagine what new carcinogens are generated by burning and inhaling plastic with your tobacco.
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