Greenman

Putting any type of smoke or burning material in the lungs of course is not good for them, it does not take a rocket scientiest to figure that out. I wish everyone would keep in mind though that our lungs have evolved from burning dung in an non-ventalated cave, which I would guess is not to healthy either. Throughout the ages, people have been intentionally or unintentially breathing tainted air since our kind discovered how to burn stuff. Factory Workers, Peasents, Merchants, Oil drillers, Hunters, Computer Lab technitions, Photo-developers, etc etc. Lets not forget the milliatary, where they force you to endure tear gas and a whole host of nasty man-made gases and vapors.

There is also a difference between actual lung damage, and an elevated RISK of lung cancer. They are not one of the same thing. Ciggerette smoke actually causes mutations in the cell wall of the lungs, which are the beginnning of cancer. Does marijuana smoke do this? The answer to that is as convoluded as the answer to any question about pot. Although, Steve Kubby who smoked in excess of an ounce a month for 10 years daily had no signs of scaring, mutation, or other precursors to cancer, or any lung damage to speak of, using and re-testing on the most sophisticated equipment available to the medical field. Take the anecdote where you like.

With all the people smoking pot, if it really had 7 times the cancerous potential as a ciggerette, where are the bodies hiding? I mean, we know that ciggerettes kill over 400,000 people a year. How many does pot kill? Can someone please point me to a number? Any source that can put a bead on it would be nice. I doubt this thread will be flooded with responses to that request.

That aside, the normal smoking habits of a person using marijuana and those using tobacco are totally different. The majority of pot smokers I would bet smoke 3-5 joints worth of marijuana a day. Where the average ciggerette smoker consumes over 20 ciggerettes a day. Even if pot, per joint, had more potential of cancer than ciggerettes by seven fold. You still are not increasing your risk much at all when you compare the uses of the two substances. And there are more people, as a percentage of the using population, of marijuana users who smoke below 3 joints a day. The opposite is true of ciggerette use, where a good number of people smoke more than 1 pack a day.

Sorry I couldn't be more specific. But the specifics are very difficult to validate. This is more of a line of reasoning I use to debate the pot is worse than ciggerettes claim.

Where are the bodies?

Peace.

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