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... Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and University of Alabama at Birmingham ...measured lung function multiple times in more than 5,100 men and women during a 20-year period. In fact, the research shows, some people who regularly smoke marijuana can have a slight improvement in lung function.
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I have a feeling that tobacco, w/o all the chemical additives is probably not as bad as we think, either.
... Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and University of Alabama at Birmingham ...measured lung function multiple times in more than 5,100 men and women during a 20-year period. In fact, the research shows, some people who regularly smoke marijuana can have a slight improvement in lung function.
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I have a feeling that tobacco, w/o all the chemical additives is probably not as bad as we think, either.
Have you seen the list of chemicals they put in cigarettes? Our government keeps requiring more to be added too. The last addition was for "FSC" to make cigarettes fire safe. Pot in its natural state doesn't have those chemicals and as these studies are completed I believe it will be proven to be less addicting and less harmful than today's common cigarette.
Smoke inhalation is bad for your lungs. Marijuana smoke is smoke. Just like wood smoke is smoke, metal smoke is smoke, plastic smoke is smoke, cigarette smoke is smoke.
Some smoke is less toxic than other smoke, but that doesn't mean the less toxic smoke is non-toxic. It's still toxic. People who are smoking *moderate* amounts of marijuana, are experiencing little, or no pulmonary effects.
Well people who only have one Marlboro ever week, are probably also experiencing little, or no pulmonary effects.
Just like people who have a fireplace and have to endure a few seconds of initial backdraft before they shut the glass fire door every evening after supper, will experience little, or no pulmonary effects.
So go ahead and have your weekly toke. Just don't expect to have "better" lungs than someone who doesn't smoke at all, and don't expect to have "better" lungs when you're smoking 4 joints a day, than someone who only partakes in one joint a week.
We call this common sense in my country. Unfortunately it's not very common anymore.
Smoke inhalation is bad for your lungs. Marijuana smoke is smoke. Just like wood smoke is smoke, metal smoke is smoke, plastic smoke is smoke, cigarette smoke is smoke.
Some smoke is less toxic than other smoke, but that doesn't mean the less toxic smoke is non-toxic. It's still toxic. People who are smoking *moderate* amounts of marijuana, are experiencing little, or no pulmonary effects.
Well people who only have one Marlboro ever week, are probably also experiencing little, or no pulmonary effects.
Just like people who have a fireplace and have to endure a few seconds of initial backdraft before they shut the glass fire door every evening after supper, will experience little, or no pulmonary effects.
So go ahead and have your weekly toke. Just don't expect to have "better" lungs than someone who doesn't smoke at all, and don't expect to have "better" lungs when you're smoking 4 joints a day, than someone who only partakes in one joint a week.
We call this common sense in my country. Unfortunately it's not very common anymore.
I'm sure most pot smokers don't need you worrying about their lung function. Most pot smokers I've known started smoking with cigarettes in a day when it was unknown exactly what was contained in them. Do you really think these people care? The world would be a much safer place if we substituted pot for alcohol.
Maybe it was the switch to Ganja, that encouraged these results.
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