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human
ELI5: Why can’t cigarettes be made healthy?

Surely things can be removed from cigarettes that will make them healthier.
gpt
Burning any carbon compound inevitably creates the dreaded “polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons” that are the primary cancer causing agents.

You can’t remove them from a cigarette without removing *everything*.

Intentionally inhaling smoke is harmful.

You could remove the nicotine to make it non-habit forming, but that sort of defeats the purpose.