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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:Why do they put tar and other harmful chemicals they advertise about in cigarettes? What's the difference between smoking a cig and smoking just tobacco without the tar and chemicals?
gpt
Tar is part of the tobacco, that's true - but there are hundreds of other chemicals that are added to to cigarettes.

The big tobacco companies claim that these additives make the cigarettes more flavorful and provide a more pleasurable smoking experience.  Others have argued that they make cigarettes more addictive.

Smoking additive-free cigarettes (such as American Spirits) or rolling your own cigarettes with additive-free tobacco has been suggested by some as a "safer" way to smoke - but the government puts the exact same Surgeon General's warming on these products as they do regular cigs with additives.