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Nicotine alone is carcinogenic, despite what people like to believe.

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[Citation needed]. Both of you.

There’s been a study which found carcinogenic compounds in vapour… thing is they overdrove the thing so hard that it was burning the wick, noone would actually take a puff of that. It’s the equivalent of setting a toaster to maximum and then saying that bread causes cancer.

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There’s little evidence of pure nicotine being carcinogenic afaik. Nicotine in tobacco is carcinogenic due to certain reactions with other chemicals in the tobacco plant

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I mean, it is, but smoke and, weirdly, polonium are also very large contributors to cancer from tobacco use.

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