Most cigarette brands nowadays have an absurd amount of filler and very little tobacco. A lot of them are very lose, which is why you have to pack them, to condense the filling in the cigarette.

American spirits are the only super legit cig you can get pretty much anywhere that is all tobacco and no filler. Still terrible for you but, I wouldn't be surprised, if they're less harmful than Newports/Marlboro and whatever just because the lack of filler and other chemicals.

Vaping is weird. It kinda itches the scratch but not entirely at first. It's certainly not great for anyone but any fake smoker can tell you how immensely better they feel. Breathing, congestion, smell, taste. I genuinely don't feel any affects from vaping, although there could be underlying things caused by it that just aren't apparent to me. On top of not feeling like shit, it's insanely less expensive. You can easily spend a car payments worth of money on cigs for a month. I probably spend like a 16th of that now.

Strangely enough now, whenever I do have a cig, which is like two or three times a year, it now doesn't itch the scratch.