On: Lungs heal damage from smoking

[consumer451]

Here is a rabbit hole regarding tobacco which I still don’t fully comprehend:

> Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Tobacco Industry’s Response to the Polonium-210 Issue https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2509609/

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=japan+lung+cancer+paradox!g

What is actually going on here?

[dr_dshiv → consumer451]

Wait, so is it in iqos and heated tobacco too? That would be huge. What about in Vapes made from tobacco?

[mschuster91 → dr_dshiv]

Anything made from natural sources will be contaminated to some degree. The only thing that should be (relatively) clean is fully synthetic vape stuff.

[PopeDotNinja → consumer451]

Man, that's trippy.

[jacobush → PopeDotNinja]

"lower levels of carcinogenic ingredients in Japanese cigarettes"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18420238

I get Fallout vibes here.

[blaser-waffle → jacobush]

I'd consider glowing cigarettes, tbh

Plus that VATS bonus