Are clove cigarettes safer than traditional cigarettes?
Clove cigarettes generally do not have nicotine in them, although they can be associated with nicotine in cloves. Generally, a clove cigarette actually burns the clove particles or the whole cloves embedded into another substance. The clove cigarettes themselves do create a significant oral and airway stimulation that people can become habituated to and enjoy. If there is no tobacco in a clove cigarette, you will not become addicted to nicotine. They are not safe because there's smoke. Smoke in the lungs is not safe. Depending on the particulate, just the burning process itself is what creates a lot of the cancer producing tars. So, just because you may not have tobacco in there does not mean breathing smoke from anything, marijuana included, is safe to take into the human lung.