What are the risks of smoking herbal cigarettes?
Well, technically, nicotine from a plant is a herb. So, a tobacco cigarette is an herbal cigarette, if you make the definition that way. But, if you're talking about a non-nicotine, non-tobacco product that is lit and inhaled into the lungs from herbs. Is that safe? It is not safe, because the whole product of combustion, of tar formation, of carbon monoxide that occurs during production is damaging to the nasal, the oral, the throat, and the lung passageways where you breathe smoke in. So, no smoke is safe to take into the lungs, no matter what it is. It may not have nicotine in it that then creates a second problem, which is an addiction in the brain. But, it still creates all of the airway problems, and the increased risk of cancer. It's not nicotine itself that causes all of the cancer going through. It's all of the other products from the burnt ash, the particulate matter, and all of the sixty-three forms of cancer-producing agents you can find when you start burning up leaves of anything, herbal or tobacco.