Even if they were the same thing -- they're obviously not -- but even if they were a cigarette smoker will imbibe in 10, 20, 40 or even more cigarettes a day. Even if you rolled joints, in chlorine-bleached paper, it would be impossible and pointless to smoke that many joints.
And then there's the path of processing. Tobacco's grown for corporate profit, which means it's indiscriminately sprayed with herbicides, insecticides and Lorillard knows what else. Then it's shipped to Big Tobacco who dumps untold other chemicals in there, before it's finally rolled up in chlorine paper. That path doesn't exist in cannabis with the exception of the chlorine paper which is user-optional.
Finally there's the matter of efficiency. Since cannabis smoking has a specific purpose, how many intakes are necessary is limited (whereas tobacco is not --- it's ongoing addiction that is never satisfied). That means a cigarette smoker will take -- I dunno -- ten? twenty? more? puffs from a single cigarette, whereas cannabis may require--- five? depending on efficiency. In the aforementioned hash under glass method, there's no paper involved and all you do is inhale ambient smoke, and it probably requires no more than two intakes. So the scale of smoke intake is vastly different.
I suspect it's far more hazardous to simply be in a room where other people are smoking tobacco, even if one does not smoke oneself, than to directly ingest a joint.
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