2006-10-30 03:28:39 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
PS Im on day 2 of quitting - going ok so far....so far!
2006-10-30 03:38:21 · update #1
they already do! Candy cigarettes!! The little white chalky sticks with a pink end! Yummy...and no cancer involved.
2006-10-30 03:36:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really. Cigarettes contain a lot of different chemicals which cause cancer, and a variety of other health problems. You simly can't take away all these ingredients, and be left with a cigarette at the end!
However, the addictive element is nicotine, which by itself is not harmful to your body (aside from the addiction). So, if you're finding it hard to quit, use nicotine patches or something. This will help overcome your cravings, as your body has been given the substance it wants. If you reduce the dosage slowly over time, your body will adjust, and you should become addiction free :)
I know it can seem hyped-up on TV and stuff, but having studied cancer at Univeristy, I can assure you that the dangers of smoking are very real. It really will be in your best intrests to quit! It's not just cancer which you can get, the stuff in cigarettes does loads of nasty things to you, all over your body!
On a side note, once you've quit, you will notice that your appetite goes up, as your smoking will have supressed it. Be careful not to over-eat as a result!
2006-11-03 00:01:53 · answer #2 · answered by Laurelin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, yes they could but then nobody would be hooked on them. You see, old indians and anybody who smoked tobacco never got hooked on them back in those days. It was a treat not something you would be itching to finish off things for. It's just the tobacco industry who made it so addictive by putting chemicals in them. And it is really these chemicals that are cancer causing. I'm not saying Nicotine is not good for you but I'm quite convinced that it is not the one that gives you lung cancer (they wouldn't put it in patches and stuff). The smoke itself cannot be that bad because for thousands of years we've lived with smoke (to heat or to cook) before we had good and efficient central heating and gas/electric cookers. The over 2000 chemicals in the cigarettes are what make cigarettes so deadly and so addictive. But I'm sure you find some (or a lot) of these same chemicals in our foods these days. Why else would a person not be able to stop eating them bloody chocolates and fatty pizzas? Why else would them bloody vegetables still be fresh after 3 weeks? That's not on now, is it? You could always grow your own, chemical-free, organic tobacco, which you can roll into cigarette papers and smoke that. But that's too much like hard work. Best is not to smoke. Stay quit, I hope you do well.
2006-10-30 03:49:29 · answer #3 · answered by Luvfactory 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe there is. I am a smoker and have read all about the chemicals they add to stop it going out, to make it taste better, to make it more addictive etc. It is the chemicals they add to the tobacco that kill you, not so much the tobacco itself. So why do they not simply ban the chemicals and sell cigarettes that contain just tobacco? Probably taste better and last longer too.
Still wish I could stop though. Nowhere left to go for a quiet smoke anymore without some do-gooder smashing your head open with an ASH poster. Oh well........
2006-10-30 03:46:38 · answer #4 · answered by superman in disguise 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the nicotine is the addictive part (which is actually a very strong poison) but the parts that cause cancer are the entire cigarette itself.
Light cigarettes & low tar ones are the best the industry can do.
2006-10-30 03:35:29 · answer #5 · answered by TravisO 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry about that but there are no such things as safe cigarettes. All of them will cause cancer so the best thing to do is quit if you want safety and not to get the cancer.
2006-10-30 03:34:55 · answer #6 · answered by ramall1to 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Cigarettes are known to contain 100s of poisonous chemicals, several of which are actually cancerous (cause cancer). Most of these chemicals are not bi-products, so the cigarette couldn't be made without them. Also it is the large amount of fumes that block the tracheal mucus system that are known to cause cancer...
2006-10-30 03:38:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you're suggesting is called a "pipe dream".
The only thing that keeps people smoking is the powerfully addictive drug nicotine and the (equally seductive) romantic myths laced with it - it's grown up. it's dangerous, it's sexy, it's defiant, it's cool, it relieves all stress.
I smoked for 32 years and believed all that crap as well as sucking plenty of it into my lungs.
If you like it and enjoy it fair play, I only stopped when I didn't like the consequences. But all things considered and with hindsight I'd say you are asking the wrong question.
2006-10-30 03:50:15 · answer #8 · answered by kittyfreek 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah. Buy some rizla & put some grass from a garden in & smoke that. ps i quit smoking 1 month go. If I can do it then anyone can. No patches/drugs just stopped.
2006-10-30 05:31:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nicotine is the addictive substance. you can feed your addiction with patches and nicotine gum.
The basis of a cigarette is tube of burning organic matter which you inhale. inhaling any hot smoke into your lungs is going to be unhealthy.
2006-10-30 03:38:32 · answer #10 · answered by SeabourneFerriesLtd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋