From what I gather, the tar and nicotine in the cigarrettes is what makes them addictive as well as what encrusts the lungs with poison.

I don't like the idea of smoking anything- and I believe that if people actually DRANK the organic tobacco leaves as a tea, they would get the same benefits- and even more unimagined antioxidant benefits -than if they smoke it.
That's just my feelings so far-

Neverthless, if someone must smoke- It would probably be a heck of a lot safer to smoke roll your own tobacco cigarrettes than the Tar/Nicotine crap the cigarrette industry pushes.