Discussion: Is smoked food unhealthy?

Smoking is the process of flavoring, browning, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood. Eating smoked food is not recommended! Very tasty but entails significant risks & side effects. Smoking dries out the food and makes it difficult to digest. Smoking introduces various chemicals from the products of combustion that are not natural to the body.