Cigarette Companies promoting Anti-Marijuana Studies

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Smoking a single marijuana joint does as much damage to the lungs as

several cigarettes, a study suggests. The drug reduces airflow into the

lungs, damages the functioning of the large airways, diminishes the

number of small airways and forces the lungs to work harder, according

to a report in the London Times.

The effects of each joint were equivalent to between 2½ and 5

cigarettes, according to the New Zealand team who carried out the study.

Defenders of cannabis have argued that it is less damaging than tobacco because many fewer joints than cigarettes are smoked.

The study, led by Richard Beasley from the Medical Research Institute

of New Zealand, recruited 339 volunteers, divided into those who smoked

cannabis only (75 people); those who smoked cannabis and tobacco (91);

cigarette smokers only (92) and nonsmokers (81). The pot smokers had

all smoked a minimum of one joint a day for at least five years, and

the tobacco smokers had smoked at least 20 a day for one year.

In Thorax online, the team reports that the volunteers were given

breathing tests to measure lung function, and X-rays to investigate

damage. The results showed that cannabis smokers experienced wheezing,

coughing and chest tightness as well as damage to the airways. But

cannabis smokers, unlike cigarette smokers, did not suffer from

emphysema.

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too bad mj gets you high for 2-4 hours, (depending on the dankity of the shit, and the mode of injestion)

and cigs get you a 10 minute head rush and then you want another.

i would rather make weed cookies or something then cigarette cookies. This response is all over the place i know, but the point is weed is actually fun, and cigs are like fuck you you're addicted
 
k so, joints are the dirtiest way to use marijuana. did the study consider bowls, bubblers, bongs and vaporizers?
 
or are blunts, is paper worse for you than tobacco leaves? i get what your saying. if someone only smoked hash out of a bowl or used a vaporizer there would be no problems with the lungs.
 
wow people are stupid

it doesnt matter if a j has just as much tar or whatever or more than a cig....

there is a huge difference between smoking cannabis and tobacco

tobacco smoke is carcinogenic

cannabis smoke is not or very little so
 
amen.

haha somewhere i read to o.d. on marijuana you had to smoke like an ounce a minute for 15 minutes. i.e. not possible.
 
yea, i've heard anything from smoking your body weight in a few hours to 15 ounces in 15 minutes to all kinds of crazy stupid stuff but the main idea is that you would pass out before you got to the point of od.
 
you can definitely "green out" ie. vomit and feel like shit from smoking too much/eating too many brownies but im pretty sure its impossible to O.D. on weed, maybe theoretically it's possible but its literally not
 
i dont see the connection between this study and cig companies? so they funded this study? it's not really anti-marijuana, and cigarette companies get extra business from potheads because I love a cigarette when I'm high, its the best.

despite what anyone says, smoking weed isn't good for you. you are smoking unfiltered smoke from an uncured substance. its harsh
 
do they use pesticides on tobacco? if they do that can't be good either....i dont think people use it on bud..especially if its growin in yo basement
 
Honestly I dont think Weed is ever going to be legalized in America. It might be decriminalized in some states but i dont think it will ever be implemented on a nationwide basis.

to tell you the truth people are going to do what they want. i mean DARE didnt really help me or the millions of other people who started to do drugs so this probably wont either.
 


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You have to be able to inhale about half of your body weight in a relatively short amount of time. If you died because there was so much smoke in the room... then you were probably putting yourself at a good risk of having died of suffocation first:)
 
that is such bullshit, i know a cigarette smoker who coughs and struggles to breathe all the time, he has been smoking probably a bit less than half a pack a day for a year, and i know a marijauana smoker who has smoked on average once a day for the past 9 months. the pot smoker got the most laps in our school conditioning class on a run...and does not do any sports at all, just smokes weed. nobody knows how he did it, even the jocks, but he certainly did not cheat.
 
Dankity... that is a sick word. I got called a dumb ass the other day because i said Edgar Allan Poe was dank in English class, but it's true so what can they do?
 
Actually, the real reason it's not legal started waaaay back.

But I'm not going to give a history lesson right now.
 
I know the entire history, too.

But now, they could legalize it, but kids are using it so damn much and not realizing how awesome a sober life is, too. I mean, I was totally into it, it was a huge habit this past spring and now I have total self control (smoked for the first time on sunday in 4 months). I don't even want to do it anymore, I do it if I get the chance but it's not a big deal. There are problems with bud, it's not completely good for you, in fact it's pretty bad. Not nearly as bad as tobacco or alcohol, but still a drug nevertheless and has negative effects on the body. I think legalization would work, but it would take a helluva bill with every single plan laid out in extreme detail for it to pass. So far, no canidate has planned to do this nor do I think a canidate (that has a chance to win) will ever do this.
 
i think there is a point to be made. smoking marijuana and cigarettes, regardless, is not a healthy choice. the fact that you are inhaling smoke, even smoke from burning paper or burning wood, is not healthy for the lungs.
 
^ way to make up information. Cannabis IS a carcinogen. Sawdust is a carcinogen. Almost anything can cause cancer, ESPECIALLY... when you light it on fire and inhale it into your lungs. Just because you like something doesn't mean it can't be bad for you.
 
hahaha maybe is because "cannabis" smokers are all non athletic hippies who rot around all day.

harsh generalization, I know. ahha
 
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