Cigarettes had their claws in me for years, but the vapes have helped. How bad are they?
What about if you vape indoors? Does it damage stuff like cigs do?
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Regarding the dangers of cigarettes:
The radioactive substance -- which the UCLA study shows was first brought to the attention of the tobacco industry in 1959 -- was identified in 1964 as the isotope polonium-210, which emits carcinogenic alpha radiation. Polonium-210 can be found in all commercially available domestic and foreign cigarette brands, Karagueuzian said, and is absorbed by tobacco leaves through naturally occurring radon gas in the atmosphere and through high-phosphate chemical fertilizers used by tobacco growers. The substance is eventually inhaled by smokers into the lungs.