Pipe smoking vs cigarettes

I'd like to point out a little difference between these two.

I quit smoking cigarettes two years ago to save my health and my deteriorating skin. I only smoked for eight months, but I still remember the addiction. I hated those death sticks, but I needed them. It was horrible.

During the cigarette-smoking period, I'd have wrinkles emerging at the edge of my cheek, forehead and at the corners of my eyes. I looked really old after I smoked, and I realized that after a few days without smoking, the wrinkles would disappear.

One's skin condition reveals much of a person's health on a visible level, so I took this as an early warning to my body and quit.


The interesting thing is, pure tobacco without the cigarette additives seems relatively harmless. During my travels in Asia, I once smoked hashish somewhere it's not outlawed. I stayed there for two weeks, and I was stoned everyday. I mixed the hash with tobacco leaves, and what do you know? Even though I smoked a good amount of tobacco in those weeks, my face actually looked perfectly normal, and I didn't feel the uncomfortable buzz in your head after smoking cigarettes.


I still think that inhaling smoke into your lungs to be unhealthy, but I now tend to think that if it's just tobacco itself without the chemicals added by Big Tobacco, it's probably not as bad as they say.

So, I'd recommend buying tobacco and a pipe, or a even cleaner device, the e-cig.




But pipes are just way classier :D