# Healthy Smoking? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 21, 2002, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/healthy-smoking/115343 "2002-06-21T21:39:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/healthy-smoking/115343/1 "2002-06-21T21:39:47Z")
Preface: I am not a smoker (of anything…except bbq-worthy meats…and that’s on the grill, anyhow) Many cultures have developed (independently?) rituals or habits that involve buring some sort of plant and inhaling the resulting smoke. We now know that doing so with tobacco is bad for you, marajuana is questionable at best, and more modern alternatives, such as Crack, are _very_ bad for you. Is there anything out there that is pleasant (or at least not unpleasant) to smoke, and NOT addictive, harmful, or deadly? or is the act of breathing hot particles into your lungs always a less-than-stellar idea? ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/healthy-smoking/115343/2 "2002-06-21T23:23:25Z")
Well, unless it is in some way addictive, why would people do it? I mean, smoking without the nicotine, weed without the THC, and Crack without the… whatever it is probably aren’t very pleasant…