I don't think that payment of taxes removes any carcinogens from factory-made cigarettes -- do you?

The question still remains whether today's most popular and widely-sold tobacco products contain more harmful additives than in the past. Many sources contend that they do. I know that arsenic is among the substances found in cigarettes, along with a whole lot of other stuff with unrecognizable names.

The reason for "enhancing" smokes in this manner, supposedly, is to make them even more addictive than they already are -- a pretty insidious marketing ploy. Smoking straight unadulterated tobacco -- if you can find any without growing it yourself -- would probably be downright *healthy*, compared to inhaling the fumes generated by commercially-manufactured ciggies.