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Many Americans wrongly believe exposure to marijuana smoke is safer than tobacco
- hammock 3y agoThis reads like an article from 2004. All the same propaganda. Hasn’t changed. Smoking a J is not the same as smoking a pack of 20 cigarettes
- quantified 3y agoThe headline and the various conclusions in the article are at odds with each other.
- cvccvroomvroom 3y agoA very scientific analysis you got there. Got any evidence?
- Kerb_ 3y ago>I do not believe that comparing the health risks of marijuana smoking and tobacco smoking is useful any more than asking, ‘Are eating cookies healthier than eating cake?’ Then why do we have nutrition facts on both to directly compare their contents?
- brianwawok 3y agoBut we don’t require an ingredient list on a frozen margarita because it’s bad for you - don’t try to be too healthy anyway.
- Kerb_ 3y agoI actually wish alcohol would require ingredient information and nutrition facts as well, but you do raise a good point
- brianwawok 3y agome too. I can still buy a drink AND want to not eat weird chemical dyes...
- SkyPuncher 3y agoIt’s pretty clear to me that any smoke (including wood burning fires), is bad for you. However, most smoke doesn’t include nicotine and other ingredients that risk addiction.
- mal-2 3y agoI had always heard that part of the problem with tobacco smoke is that it's radioactive. Whereas marijuana smoke isn't. So it's still smoke but not nearly as carcinogenic?
- hulitu 3y agoYou should not believe everything you read. If tobbaco smoke was radioactive then the cigarettes would have been radioactive (you don't make a material radioactive just by setting it on fire) and would have caused a health hazard for stores employees.
- mal-2 3y agoThis is well-established in peer reviewed research, it's not just something I read.
- runnerup 3y agoAwhile ago I tried to prove to my pothead friends that marijuana smoke from joints would cause cancer too, due to breathing combusted plant material. However, at the time I couldn’t find and academic or medical studies which showed smoking marijuana alone leads to higher cancer rates. This shocked me and seemed very counter intuitive. I’m not sure if maybe that research is now perhaps easy to find many years later or if it’s still not proven.
- cvccvroomvroom 3y agoPotheads gonna pothead. Bongs are also absolutely pointless. Microfines will fucking kill you. If you want delta8/9 THC and CBD, find a lipid carrier to ingest just those compounds.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoBurning plant material at the very least still has nasty hydrocarbons and soot in it, and generally cannabis smoke is held longer than cigarette smoke. So even if it doesn't have additives like the tobacco in cigarettes, it's still bad for you. HOW bad likely depends on a number of factors. Flower vaporizers are likely on the less harmful end while vaping THC oil cartridges are likely on the more harmful side, so even among "vaping" the risk could be variable. Straight up burning flower though? It's probably as good for you as it makes your breath smell afterwards.