Are cigarettes really worse for your lungs than pot?!

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That is what I was told in school... But the reason it is less known is because many people smoke pot less than people smoke cigarettes. But I'm not sure about it being worse. If anything, they are the same. Though, a doctor or drug-officer can give you more information.

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Yes cigarettes are really worse for your lungs than marijuana.

Marijuana and tobacco contain about the same amount of naturally occurring organic compounds (about 50 or so) which can cause harm to your lungs and are potentially carcinogenic. This, however, is only the case with naturally grown, pure marijuana or tobacco. Tobacco used in cigarettes is cut with thousands of different chemicals so this greatly increases the harm it does to the body, not just lungs. If you were to grow your own marijuana and your own tobacco, smoking each would cause about the same amount of damage, but factory cigarettes are much much worse.

If you think about vaporizing marijuana (or even tobacco), you remove most, if not all, of the harmful chemicals to your body. You still get the desired effects of the substance, but you are at a much lesser risk for bodily harm.

It should be easy to understand that tobacco users smoke more than marijuana users. That's just a fact, and it has everything to do with the relative harm of each. Even if marijuana were more harmful to the lungs, it still wouldn't matter at all, because hardly any marijuana users actually smoke enough to hurt their lungs. Most don’t even smoke every day. They also quit more easily, thus consuming a vastly smaller quantity in their lifetime. The two cannot even be compared for this reason.

Marijuana is more likely to cause "airflow obstruction," while tobacco is more likely to cause emphysema and lung cancer. You tell me which one is 5 times worse.

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I've never had any problems from smoking pot but I have experienced weezing, coughing, trouble breathing, and other asthmatic symptoms from smoking cigarettes. While neither one is healthy, marijuana isn't going to kill you nearly as fast as cigarettes will. I think this is why the legalization of marijuana is so controversial. It seems to be safer than alcohol, nicotine, and many other drugs. Also, it is very true that cigarettes have many harmful substances which marijuana does not contain. Some examples are formaldehyde and rat poison.

Yes! When there are over 400,000 deaths per year in America alone from tobacco, and ZERO deaths EVER recorded from marijuana use, and ZERO reports of cancer from marijuana use alone, studies have shown pot is safer than tobacco.

http://vimeo.com/5887468 <The truth on marijuana. The Union, The Business Behind Getting High