Ember can smoke! She is a dragon after all

@Deactivated_20191124_01  
Technically they already exist but aren’t very popular also vaping

Nicotine is the plants defense against herbivores, it disorientates and sometimes kills the animal eating the plant.
 
Caffiene, cocaine, and ephedrine are in the same boat, first appearing as a defense against herbivores and these kind of compounds get used as blood pressure medication, stimulants and painkillers to name a few. Plant based alkaloids make up a large portion of medicine and recreational drugs.
 
I don’t think tarless cigarettes are really possible, because tar is the end result of burning plant material. I looked around because I’m sure there could be less tar, but the issue is still there.
 
Cigarettes put multiple strains on the cardiovascular system, by coating the lungs in tar, disrupting carbon-oxygen balance, stiffening blood vessels, and increasing adrenaline and heart rate. When you smoke your heart and lungs work harder, and this can go a long ways towards early death and disease.

@Makarosc  
Tar is just one of about a hundred toxic compounds in tobacco; one bullet less in the magazine doesn’t make the magdump hurt any less. The primary active ingredient is literally a biological pesticide designed specifically to kill the everloving hell out of anything that tries to eat the plant.

@Ninji  
Tarless cigarettes are a thing theywere just never released due to corporate greed

@Camera Sparks  
Yeah, that ain’t me.

OMG this cant be real Ember would never smoke I’m shaking

Yeah, I don’t even know what arsenic is. I just put the first thing that came to mind that’s present in cigs. XD

I would go as far to guess that weed contains similar amounts of arsenic and ammonia, and the tar from weed is no safer either, but it’s culturally consumed in far less quantity than tobacco.
 
People don’t smoke a pack of joints a day (I hope) which is likely why weed is safer.

@furrypony  
Again, that’s the health effects of smoking tobacco, not the effects of the trace arsenic in all of our agriculture.
 
EDIT: I said arsenic and ammonia aren’t a problem in cigarettes. This shit is in all of our food and drinking water, amonia and arsenic are both biologically necessary and a byproduct of many organic reactions.
 
The biggest problem from what I understand is tar, the product of smoking any plant. Thick, carbonaceous, combusted plant matter goo going into the lungs.
 
I’d appreciate it if information I have to offer was not seen as pro smoking. I’m passionate about giving honest incite in matters of physiology and organic chemistry. Cigarettes are not safe, but they have no more arsenic than anything else we consume, and the body handles agricultural ammonia very well.

@Ninji  
It’s not “disputable”.  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tobacco

cough cough I’ll be Snoop Dogg if I “Smoke Weed Everyday”.

Should do one of Smolder as well :)

@TexasUberAlles  
From the page you sent me.
 
“The average American adult takes in 50 milligrams of arsenic each day, with 80 percent of it coming from meat, fish, and poultry. Some wines also contain …”
 
“Arsenic is a natural element that can be found in rocks and soil, water, air, and in plants and animals.”
 
Still don’t see the test where individuals are exposed to cigarette levels of arsenic.

@TexasUberAlles  
Arsenic comes in through all of our agriculture. A cup of rice can have up to three times the arsenic as a pack of cigarettes. Up to 5micrograms is allowed to be in a liter of drinking water, a pack of cigarettes has .5-2 micrograms usually.
 
Give me one of the links and I’ll tell you why it’s inconclusive.

@TexasUberAlles  
I like that idea too.

@Ninji  
Today I Learned search engines are hard to use, apparently.

@TexasUberAlles  
Arsenic is something that appears sparsely all throughout nature. Dose makes the poison, and arsenic isn’t specifically high in cigarettes, as opposed to inhaling any other combusting plant matter.
 
If you look at an infographic about the dangers of cigarettes you’ll find most of the ‘toxic chemicals’ are things that occur everywhere in organic chemistry. The dangers of cigarettes are complicated and disputable, it’s easier to put industrial labels on common organic compounds.

I love TJPones’s fanon that Dragon’s can just eat buckets of pitch and coal tar like candy so cigarettes ain’t nothin’ to ‘em, it completely fits with the way they literally eat rocks and crystals in the show.
 
@Ninji  
“Arsenic isn’t dangerous to breathe” is a sizzlin’ hot take, there, dude.

Ember’s Bea Santello cosplay

“Winstons delivers flavor twenty times a pack”
 
 
@thps48  

 
Arsenic is a chemical element. Vitamin D is a lipophillic steroid. Arsenic isn’t actually a problem in cigarettes, neither is ammonia, they just sound scary.

Yeah, oddly enough, cigarettes are health food for dragons.

Arsenic is a good source of vitamin D and soot. ;3