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There's a certain irony in the fact a feature supposed to improve safety actually made an already dangerous thing massively more dangerous. That's got to be the
by BoxOfRain 4y ago
There's a certain irony in the fact a feature supposed to improve safety actually made an already dangerous thing massively more dangerous. That's got to be the most cancerous product ever brought to market that didn't outright irradiate its user.
- mrguyorama 4y agoWell I don't think filtered cigarettes are actually a safety improvement in general. They were only ever a marketing gimmick
- beenBoutIT 4y agoNo, filters really were the biggest step towards a "safer cigarette", despite the official stance that no such thing can ever exist. Non-filter cigarette smokers are 40% more likely to develop lung cancer and almost twice as likey to die from cancer than filtered cigarette smokers. *https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/5789/presentation/23033 https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/5789/presentation/230...
- jimmaswell 4y agoI wonder if we're going to start seeing effects of a lot of people increasingly smoking weed habitually, especially joints with no filtering. Certainly not as bad as cigarettes but it still can't be good for you to inhale hot smoke.
- abakker 4y agoMaybe this is just my filter bubble (pun intended?) but since legalization, all of the people I knew who smoked weed but not cigarettes just switched to gummies. I wonder how many people want THC but never wanted to smoke in the first place?
- galangalalgol 4y agoThere is some evidence that both thc and especially cbd are antiinflammatory, which might make it a little less bad, but yeah, all those odd and highly reactive hydrocarbons can't be good. Breathing anything other than clean air on purpose seems like generally a bad idea.
- rtev 4y agoFunny you mention this, because we’re already seeing it. In fact, I recall reading that unfiltered marijuana smoke is slightly more harmful to the lungs than unfiltered cigarette smoke.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoNot if but when. Inhaling that amount of burnt stuff regardless of source is just not good for you.
- gsk22 4y agoThe byproducts of cannabis combustion are certainly not healthy, but the saving grace is that even the heaviest weed smokers inhale far less smoke than cigarette smokers. And unlike tobacco, safer alternatives exist -- vaping doesn't require combustion, and edibles obviously carry no risk from inhalation.
- SoftTalker 4y agoNot sure why anyone thinks weed is safer. Tobacco is dried, shredded plant leaves. Weed is ... oh wait.
- klipt 4y ago> outright irradiate its user E.g. Radithor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor
- Trouble_007 4y ago>"The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off"
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y agoBefore seeing this, if someone told me "Radithor" was a superhero created in the 90s and described as "rad" in marketing, I would have no reason not to believe them.
- hedora 4y agoModern flame retardants are similarly bad. At one point, consumer groups, Ikea, and fire fighters were all lobbying California to get rid of them. They partially succeeded. If you have a couch / pillow / etc with a California label saying it contains flame retardants, immmediately wrap it in a plastic bag and send it to the dump. California required more flame retardants than anywhere else on earth. Cats in California started developing previously unseen forms of cancer as a direct result.