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by embedding-shape 142 days ago
That article ends with "The bottom line: there is no such thing as safe tobacco" which seems to try to answer a different question.

As far as I can tell, that page never actually tries to answer "Are "all-natural" cigarettes less harmful than ones with additives?".

Neither are healthy for you, yes, we get that, but the question is if one is slightly less unhealthy?

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Literally every source (including the tobacco companies themselves, who have been cowed by legal pressure) say that no cigarette is safer than any other. It's the tobacco itself that's the problem.

This is the settlement that Natural American Spirit had to agree to because they couldn't provide evidence that additive-free cigarettes are any safer:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2000/04/...