>>I don't see how can dead people create such a long thread.
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>>I mean, the generation of our parents and grandparents were smoking so much and everywhere that we must be dead already.
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>Hmm I see the reply of a smoker here.

Smoker yes I am, but I wrote this as an unbeliever. IOW, I don't believe all the hype. I just wish they used that much propaganda against real polluters.

>Even trying to justify the unjustifiable ;-)

Smoking is bad, no doubt. But so is being a couch potato, or breathing on a congested highway, or eating meat laced with hormones and antibiotics, or having a tad too much heavy metals in your food... the list could go on.

>Perhaps what your parents smoked had less chemicals than nowadays. Perhaps the chemist were'nt as aware as they are now on how to hook people faster. Perhaps...

That's one thing I was thinking of recently. I'm getting my tobacco straight from the inventors - the American Americans. In a can, pure. I roll my own and prefer glueless paper, so there isn't even any formaldehyde from that. And I've noticed that anytime I switched (for a week or so) to regular cigarettes, I'd start having mucus and sometimes coughing. So I'm not really sure whether it's the tobacco by itself, or the particles of plastic from the filter, or the various chemicals they put in.

Proper cigarette should just go out if you don't pull - which mine usually do (I tend to forget about them, one could say I'm mostly half-smoker :). Try to leave a Marlboro on an ashtray - it will happily burn to the filter without any user intervention. And you'll notice periodical tiny sparks... they probably use the best gunpowder there is.