Their is still a great debate as to whether marijuana causes lung cancer as tobacco does. I couldn't find a percentage. However, their is som new research that suggests THC(the active ingredient in marijuana) may help fight lung cancer.
According to the Lung Cancer Alliance roughly 85% of newly diagnosed cases directly relate to smoking (either former smokers [50%] or current smokers [35%] see 2nd link below...
And for you lalithgeorge... "Only 10% of smokers will develop lung cancer in their lifetime and genetic testing to determine the population of smokers who are most predisposed to develop the disease is needed to help guide better evaluation for these people," explained Joanne B. Weidhaas, MD, PhD, assistant professor of therapeutic radiology at Yale School of Medicine and senior author on the study in collaboration with Frank Slack, PhD, associate professor in the department of molecular, cellular and developmental Biology at Yale University.
Roughly 65% of smokers in the world have had lung cancer.
Whenever a foreign substance enters your body, there is a chance that it can make your cells grow into tumors.
All smoke potentially creates conditions for the development of lung, throat, brain cancer, just like the toxins in makeup can create conditions leading to the development of Breast cancer.
My sociology professor once told us that 90% of lung cancer patients are smokers, but only 10% of smokers ever get lung cancer.
My sociology professor in college once told us that 90% of lung cancer patients are smokers, but only 10% of smokers ever get lung cancer.
Marijuana itself is not proven to provoke cancer, however if smoked with tobacco the tobacco will. Also there might be undesired substances in the weed, you can never know.
i sure hope not
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u tell me
not at all! cigerettes cause lung cancer and marijuana does not
Some studies have shown a lesser effect of cancer when marijuana is smoked with tobacco.
Yes. You can get these cancers from alcohol
No. Smoking won't help anything. Marijuana is not proven to decrease or increase the chance of any kind of cancer.
Statistical analysis suggests that marijuana, unlike tobacco, does not cause cancer. However, inhaling smoke is still not healthy for you, and it can still cause emphysema even if it does not cause cancer.
the smoke rots and blacken your lung. :(
Whether smoking marijuana can cause lung cancer or not is still up in the air.. Studies lean toward no. Marijuana may cause Emphysema, though. It gradually destroys your bronchioles (tiniest air passages in your lungs).
smoking anything can give you lung cancer statistic say that you lose one year of you life ever time you smoke.
no it is not contagious
marijuana can cause brain tumors , lung cancer etc.
One gives you lung cancer and the other gives you schizophrenia