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Culture plays a huge part too. In a lot of social circles, tobacco is looked down upon as a smelly loser's fix, whereas celebrities champion being high every wa

Culture plays a huge part too. In a lot of social circles, tobacco is looked down upon as a smelly loser's fix, whereas celebrities champion being high every waking moment. Of course there are major differences in health effects - cigarettes can kill you but you can't OD on weed - helping drive this cultural shift, but in the end there is only so much that regulation and legislation can accomplish.

crdoconnor 11y ago
Pot doesn't cause lung cancer either: http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20060523/pot-smoking-not-linked-to-lung-cancer http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20060523/pot-smoking-n...
- Kalium 11y ago
  It's worth remembering that inhaling burning plant matter is never really going to be a good idea.
  - jostmey 11y ago
    Yeah, lungs did not evolved to breath smoke filled air. In my book, smoking of anything is bad for respiratory health.
    - an_ko 11y ago
      That's a shallow argument. Your fingers didn't evolve to type but they're fine with it in moderation.
- kbutler 11y ago
  That's an old study based on limited information. Its primary value at this point is that it encouraged more research, which found that, yes, smoking marijuana DOES increase rush of lung cancer. For example, a slightly newer study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2516340/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2516340/
cylinder 11y ago
And in a few generations, marijuana will be seen by young people as disgusting and for losers. They'll look back on us and think we were idiots for glorifying it, just as we now look back at how everyone used to smoke cigarettes with disdain.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
  I think by then we'll have all sorts of excess available to us (not unlike today), and we will say the same things we do today: All good things, in moderation.

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Culture plays a huge part too. In a lot of social circles, tobacco is looked down upon as a smelly loser's fix, whereas celebrities champion being high every wa

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crdoconnor 11y ago
Pot doesn't cause lung cancer either: http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20060523/pot-smoking-not-linked-to-lung-cancer http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20060523/pot-smoking-n...
- Kalium 11y ago
  It's worth remembering that inhaling burning plant matter is never really going to be a good idea.
  - jostmey 11y ago
    Yeah, lungs did not evolved to breath smoke filled air. In my book, smoking of anything is bad for respiratory health.
    - an_ko 11y ago
      That's a shallow argument. Your fingers didn't evolve to type but they're fine with it in moderation.
- kbutler 11y ago
  That's an old study based on limited information. Its primary value at this point is that it encouraged more research, which found that, yes, smoking marijuana DOES increase rush of lung cancer. For example, a slightly newer study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2516340/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2516340/
cylinder 11y ago
And in a few generations, marijuana will be seen by young people as disgusting and for losers. They'll look back on us and think we were idiots for glorifying it, just as we now look back at how everyone used to smoke cigarettes with disdain.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
  I think by then we'll have all sorts of excess available to us (not unlike today), and we will say the same things we do today: All good things, in moderation.