Normally, I wouldn’t condone smoking, but there are cases where it is appropriate. Weaning off of cigarettes, for one, or treating an illness. There are safe smoking alternatives that don’t contain addictive or harmful additives. Smoke gets into the throat and lungs and concentrates the constituents from the herbs there. It centers the compounds at the site that needs it, rather than starting in the stomach and taking 30 minutes or more to hit the area in question. Smoking herbs as an alternative to tobacco allows smokers the same oral gratification while delivering healing compounds to the throat and lungs. But without all the nicotine and tar. Smoking natural herbs can help to lessen the urge to smoke tobacco cigarettes. I call that beneficial. Do you?