menthol smokers

sorry to waste a new thread on this, but i noticed some people spouting out some bullshit in the thread that got locked on the subject of menthols. something like "menthols are twice as harmful and twice as hard to quit." I am guessing these are people who buy into the lie that menthols have fiberglass in them, which is ridiculous. and whether they believe that or not, they are wrong. Some studies show they are a little wore(by no means 2x) and those studies are not enough for any concrete proof. Of course all cigarettes are bad for you. I just get a little tired of people talking like they know when they have no proof and are frankly talking out of their ass. like when peoyple say lsd makes your spine bleed. i am not intending to start shit here as i often do, i am just trying to educate people.

if you want proof read here
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/3675.html

Smokes don't have fiberglass IN them, but there is fiberglass fibers in the filter alone.

In my eyes, there is no safe cigg. They're all no good to me, and they all equally kill.

face it, there's always going to be these common misconceptions about just about everything in life, drugs being one of the highest concentrations of misconceptions... they're always going to be there =/

Yeah dog, I feel the same way about cloves.

This is from a thread earlier today that was closed for obvious reasons, but it still had some pretty ignorant shit in it. Once again, thebeancounter41 gave us a whole bunch of misguided rumors that I'm getting sick of reading. Maybe it's that, or just how much of a prick he comes off as.

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Originally Posted by intrepidus6
Is it socialy acceptable for a white male to smoke marlboro menthols?

thebeancounter41 - - What kind of ignorant question is that?You think menthols are the exclusive domain of black people or something?A better question would be : "Is menthol better for you than regular cigarettes?" And the answer to that is NO,NO,NO.Menthol does double the damage to your lungs that regular tobac does.It increases your chance of emphysema by almost 50% more than those who smoke NON-menthols.

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Please, please - - read up on something before you speak. Otherwise you just look foolish. ~

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Originally Posted by Nochowderforyou

Smokes don't have fiberglass IN them, but there is fiberglass fibers in the filter alone.

In my eyes, there is no safe cigg. They're all no good to me, and they all equally kill.

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they do all equally kill, no dispute there but the filterd has nothing to do with that...

"The raw material for the manufacture of cigarette filters is cellulose (obtained from wood). The cellulose is acetylated, dissolved, and spun as continuous synthetic fibers arranged into a bundle called tow. The cellulose is a substituted diacetate (actually 1.5 to 2.0 substitution range) cellulose, due to its chemical and physical processing. This tow is opened, plasticized, shaped, and cut to length to act as a filter.":thumbsup: