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(05-01-2012 06:10 AM)Roark Wrote:  

(04-26-2012 07:43 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

I am not well versed on cigarettes, but how can they be significantly different if they still have so much nicotine? I thought that the whole point of making smoking less harmful is to remove nicotine, "tar" and other stuff.

Because nicotine is the active chemical, not the carcinogenic chemical.

Nicotine (like caffeine, theobromine, same class of substances) is a natural pesticide, evolved by plants like cacao trees, coffee plants etc. They do have mutagenic (cancer promoting) effects on their own. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/

Also many other downsides with nicotine, like inhibiting the enzyme that degrades DHT. In other words, it plays a role in male pattern baldness, prostate growth and cancer, hirsutism, acne etc.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3200111

Stay away from this crap guys, it`s a nasty habit anyway.