If you want glutathione that you supposedly get from cigarettes, then take a glutathione supplement, don't smoke a cigarette for that reason. I'm sure that any of the "benefits" of smoking can be found in healthier alternatives. And to say that regular cigarettes with over 1000 chemicals in them are "likely" bad for you is quite the understatement. There is no doubt that they are all-out terrible for you - with or without the current rhetoric from pharmaceuticals. And I don't mean to sound preachy, because I've had a number of American Spirit cigarettes lately due to stress. But there is nothing healthy about cigarettes, at least the regular variety and I highly doubt there is in the non-additive kind too. And American Spirits are not organic at all (at least none of the varieties I have smoked or seen sold in stores), but they do not have any additives added to them at all. And it's mainly the additives that are horribly toxic to us. It's still not as if smoking Spirits is good for you though. And one of the reasons that they are so high in mercury (regardless of this test, I have heard/read that several times before), is that they are heavily doused with mercury-containing pesticides....so even the Spirits likely have mercury in them, as they are not organic.

Just my thoughts on it. Like I said, I don't want to be preachy, but saying that cigerettes may be good for you....well, saying it is a stretch is about as mildly as I can put it.....

~Tia