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i went to the commonground fair on friday and bought some indian tobacco from this little indian place. its got some sage and other stuff with it the guy said.
anyways,
i just mixxed a bit in with my bowl and man... this stuff is great.
i only took 2 hits and i already lost my lighter
what makes it better than regular tobacco?
okay well you know how taking a huge hit of tobacco out of a bowl makes you so dizzy and sick? well this does the same, only it makes my head comfortably dizzy and i dont feel sick at all. it tastes so good and it smells like heaven. ive been smoking it all day lol. im smoking straight bowls of it now
yeah, i actually like pipe tobacco. i've only smoked it once, but i didn't feel sick at all, or get dizzy.
it just gave me a really mild buzz, it actually was very nice.
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Originally Posted by NightProwler
Indian bidis are much worse, health-wise, than American cigarettes. I tried them a long time ago when I first smoked cigarettes, and fortunately stopped. I eventually quit smoking cigarettes completely.
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Smoking bidis has been independently proven to cause:
Cancer of the tongue (International Journal Cancer, 1989; 44(4):617-621)
Cancer of the gums (British Journal of Cancer, 1989; 60:638-643)
Cancer of the floor of the mouth (International Journal Cancer, 1989; 44(4):617-621)
Other squamous cell oral cancers (Indian Journal of Cancer, 1997; 34:49-58)
Cancer of the larynx (International Journal of Cancer, 1990;45:879-882)
Cancer of the esophagus (International Journal of Cancer ,1991; 49:485-489)
Lung cancer (Thorax, 1982; 37:343-347)
High blood pressure (Journal of the Association of Physicians of India, 1995; 43:253-258)
Coronary heart disease (Indian Heart Journal, 1989; 41:62-65)
The sweet-smelling smoke of bidis is dangerous--more dangerous than cigarettes. I am angry that they are being marketed to children.
Each bidi cigarette is loaded with cancer-causing, chromosome-damaging, genetic poisons, far more than are found in a regular cigarette. "The safe alternative" also contains two to three times the tar and nicotine of regular cigarettes. In a chilling experiment, smoke from regular cigarettes and bidis was given to Swiss albino mice. Bidi smoke reliably caused cancer in doses small enough that the regular cigarette smoke left the mice apparently healthy (Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, 1988; 114:647-649).
And our children naively inhale this toxic smoke, without even the benefit of a filter.