is pure tobacco harmful "Natural" American Spirit cigarettes are not a safer choice Chemicals in Cigarettes and Tobacco:

Its the closest thing I have found to the experience of actually smoking a cigarette

The filtration efficiency of a smoking article according to this construction is greater than that of a conventional smoking article in which the filter and the smoking article are of the same diameter since the smoke velocity through the filter is reduced, ensuring that the smoke stream maintains contact with the filter for a relatively longer period of time, increasing the adsorption of smoke constituents from the smoke stream onto the fibres of the filter

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