What causes more damage cigarettes or tobacco?

A hand-rolled cigarette is better for you than a factory-produced cigarette. They both contain tobacco, but a hand-rolled cigarette has less tar and chemicals in it. You also get a lot more cigarettes for your money if you buy the tobacco, papers and filters separately, as opposed to buying a block of cigarettes.

Both contain chemicals that increase you chance of cancer, but hand-rolled cigarettes are the less damaging of the two.