• wheeldawg
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    11 months ago

    I wanna see a massive dump of them. All of them. If you gonna smoke smoke weed. Fuck tobacco and anyone who thinks it’s cool. They have the freedom to choose for sure, but anyone that chooses that is 100% idiot until proven otherwise.

    No ifs, ands, or buts. If you like it, you are part of the problem.

    Quitters finally saw the light. People who start smoking in the 2020s are just outright stupid. It’s not all over TV anymore, it’s not the cool teenage rebellion thing. It’s not even hidden knowledge about how bad it is to start, and how hard quitting is. Wtf is making people start now?

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      11 months ago

      Smoking weed will bring a lot of the negative health effects of tobacco smoking. Is it so cool that one may underestimate it? That reminds me of something.

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        11 months ago

        There’s so much garbage in tobacco cigarettes that the comparison is barely worth making.

        Now, yes, burning any plant material will release carcinogens that can increase cancer risk. Incidentally, this includes sitting around a campfire, but most people in developed countries don’t do that every day. However, studies on marijuana smoke find that smoking one joint a day for a year gives slightly elevated testicular cancer risk, and inconclusive results for other cancers.

        Possibly, marijuana has a protective effect that tends to cancel out the inherent carcinogens.

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          11 months ago

          There’s a lot of research disagreeing

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          The reality is no, cannabis probably doesn’t block carcinogens. Nor is it more harmful to your lungs than tobacco. But it’s not really clear that it’s less harmful than a filtered cigarette. I think it is probably a bit healthier of a habit just in that people usually smoke much lower quantities. But if you take a smoker and stoner each smoking 10 times a day they’re both at a higher risk of lung complications than non-smokers. Also importantly, cannabis is not chemically addictive (it definitely can be an addiction though) whereas nicotine very much so is.

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            11 months ago

            It’s also just not at all the same thing.

            An aircraft mechanic can’t just go out on his five minute break and smoke a j and go back to it.

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              11 months ago

              Yeah, maybe one small hit at best. Who’s smoking 10 joints in a day, wtf?

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        11 months ago

        If you’re smoking weed like you would smoke tobacco, you’ve got too much damn money and aren’t doing anything in your life anyhow.