cigarette smoking primarily affects the Why ANYTHING Can Cause Lung Cancer Smoking: Effects, Risks, Diseases, Quitting

It also is a cause of coronary heart disease, stroke and a host of other cancers and diseases

Being someone who has never smoked nicotine, I love that I now have an excuse to step outside into the sunshine and take a break to smoke and even hang out with the other cool kids who smoke cigarettes

A critical review of the evidence that so-called reduced-risk cigarettes lowered tobacco-caused death rates concluded: that lung cancer risk continued to increase among older smokers from the 1950s to the 1980s, despite the widespread adoption of lower yield cigarettes

(Review article) Clarke SF, Stephens C, Farhan M, et al

That was about all she could say confidently