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They're also grown with high phosphate fertilizers which produce a lot of decay products ending up in Po-210. THEN they aren't washed, and THEN they're dried under gas heaters which promote the formation of Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamines, which are incredibly carcinogenic.

One of the many reasons why, even though smoking anything is not great for your health, smoking tobacco is particularly harmful.




I don’t know if many other leaves that will give you mouth cancer from chewing them either.




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