Cannabis and tobacco smoke are not equally carcinogenic

[Charles_Main]

Cannabis and tobacco smoke are not equally carcinogenic



very interesting and easy read. I wonder if this will finally dispel the myth about weed being more harmful than cigarettes

Um DUH, Pot smoke has NO NICOTINE in it. NICOTINE is the MAIN cancer causing agent in Tobacco. It is also what makes Addiction to Tobacco as bad as Heroin While Pot Addiction is not nearly as hard to kick.
Nicotine Makes you Physically addicted to it. You actually feel pain and discomfort them you do not have it. Pot simply makes you mentally addicted to it, Not physically.

However it is not a myth that it can be more harmful to smoke pot than Tobacco. The second most damaging part of Smoking Tobacco is the Direct heat damage to the throat and lungs from inhaling HOT smoke. Cigarette smoke coming through a filter is MUCH cooler than the PIPING hot smoke from a pot Joint that has no filter, also Pot smokers deliberately hold the smoke in for a long time. This is why it can be even more Harmful than Tobacco.

Use a water bong and dont hold it in so long and it will be way less damaging. (studies show holding the smoke in gives you a negligible higher amount of THC intake to begin with. Your lungs take in what they want, Holding it in is not going to make them take in more of it.)

WHAT??? No need to hold in the smoke?
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Nope, the added effect you get from holding it in is negligible and not worth the added damage to your lungs is causes.

Cute Kitty by that way

 

[mudwhistle]

I never knew anyone who smoked weed and didn't also smoke cigarettes, although I suppose there are some.

Hi.

That explains alot.

 

[Avorysuds]

Here is the basic problem with this ridiculous argument that weeds is in ANY WAY even in the same category as cigarettes.
Cigarettes have massive additives to them… It would be like comparing a potent version of pot laced with any hardcore super addictive illegal drug… Then saying, OMGZ, like pot is so freaking like bad for you n stuff…
Break weed down to a crap product then add poisons (more heh) and some addictive additive (nicotine) then wait 20 years and see what happens when weedetts is helping spread that wonderful cancer…

Fucking moronic, anything to attack republicans… even when it means not knowing wtf you’re talking about.

 

[Douger]

I never knew anyone who smoked weed and didn't also smoke cigarettes, although I suppose there are some.

I know hundreds. NONE live in the falling empire.