Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Pot

There is a strange phenomenon going on in the world of smoking. There is ample evidence that smoking is bad for your health on several levels and there is some evidence that this is also the case with second hand smoke. Enter the controversy! Smoking E- cigarettes vs smoking pot. Pot has many of the same carcinogens found in tobacco and yet there is an effort to make pot more available to the public while there is a push to limit the use of E- cigarettes. A burning cigarette releases about 7,000 chemicals while only three have been found in E- cigs and these at the level of one- one-thousand of the amount found in tobacco. Pot has a similar number of chemicals and like cigarettes many are carcinogens. Based on the best evidence E-cigs are less likely to cause health problems than pot and that is even more evident in the second hand smoke, yet it seems that the health concerns are misplaced.

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