Well we don't really know the health problems from smoking blunts in the long run..it seems pretty good so far but it still doesn't seem like a safe way to smoke weed every time you smoke it...unless you don't smoke it that much. But the only thing a blunt has over bowls is you don't have to use your lighter every time you want to take a hit and you can pass it around and it lasts long enough to get 4 people fuckin' high as hell. But that's about it. If you're properly smoking a glass piece for example you could probably get higher quicker and your peak will probably be way more intense. Honestly I don't mind smokin blunts at all. When it really comes down to it, I'll take a blunt over a joint any day, regardless to what I ever said. But when you are by your self a glass pipe or bong would be more logical. The only time you spend money on it is when you first buy it, it can be used again and..well it just tastes better. After smokin from my pipe for so long I went back to smokin blunts for a min and the taste was just not as satisfying. Grape Swishers and Platinum Blunts though still pwn for taste. But Royal Blunts and normal Swishers taste nasty and the same to me now. But no matter what there is always a small smell or taste of tobacco. Because that's what it is, no flavoring can hide that and eventually the taste or smell can make me sick..well maybe it's the tobacco smoke...But always have your pack of 'rillos just in case you're going some where so you can smoke a blunt when you go out lol.