Safer Alternatives to Smoking Herbs If youre drawn to these herbs for relaxation, respiratory comfort, mood support, or dream enhancement, there are much lower-risk ways to experience their benefits: Tea or infusions Most herbs release their active compounds beautifully in hot water (mullein, chamomile, damiana, lavender, mugwort, passionflower, rose, cloves, blue lotus)
"For a product that's so highly taxed and is so dangerous and incredibly addictive, we're just allowing it to be sold absolutely everywhere, and it's making enforcement a nightmare." A spokesman for the Victorian government would not say whether it was recruiting more tobacco inspectors, but left the door open to giving them extra powers
With growing public concern about lung cancer and other smoking-related diseases, the tobacco industry responded not by making cigarettes safer, but by making them seem safer
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