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Posted by closetfascination
on June 16, 2009, 3:52 pm, in reply to ""Always Effective" / This Week's Forum Header Image"
Depends on why you are smoking them I think. I mean if it were purely for the nicotine, then you could argue that if they could make a safe cigarette, the product would still be effective.
But- I doubt anyone smokes just for the nicotine and I've been thinking about this lately (wow- on the same wavelength again) mainly because of these two popular science articles:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227124.600-can-smoking-ever-be-made-safe.html?full=true#bx271246B1
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227123.400-the-case-for-safer-cigarettes.html
Even if they managed to make cigarettes safer- they still wouldn't be safe.
And if they were safe, would I derive the same pleasure from them? The answer I came up with- probably not. Part of the attraction is that you knowingly do something bad for you when you smoke.
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