Which is worse marijiana or cigarettes?

Answer 1

not worse than cigarettes. In fact, it is not nearly as bad.

The latest research on the effects of marijuana on lung cancer shows that marijuana smokers actually have lower rates of lung cancer than people do not smoke pot. It seems to provide a protective effect. This research was done by Dr. Donald Tashkin of UCLA, the leading expert on the topic.

Every major government commission report on marijuana in the last 100 years has concluded that marijuana is not a serious threat to either individual or public health. You can read the full text of these reports at Major Studies of Drugs and Drug Policy - http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/studies.htm

The largest study of the health effects was done by Kaiser Permanente. They surveyed the health records of 65,000 patients over a number of years. They found no significant differences between the health records of pot smokers and people who did not smoke pot. see http://www.druglibrary.org/crl/aging/sidney-01.html

The World Health Organization studied the comparison between alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana in health effects. They concluded that marijuana is safer than either alcohol or tobacco by a wide margin. See

A Comparative Appraisal of the Health and Psychological Consequences of Alcohol, Cannabis, Nicotine and Opiate Use - http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/general/who-index.htm

The number of deaths produced by tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana in the US in a typical year is as follows:

Tobacco - about 400,000

Alcohol - about 100,000

Acetimenophen (Tylenol) - about 2,000

Marijuana -- no recorded deaths in history.

See How many people are killed by drugs?

http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/basicfax3.htm

(These facts are always skewed in such a manner than pot can never be included. The studies only show deaths directly related to the substance. i.e. alcohol poisoning, overdose of pills. But the indirect deaths caused by pot are actually much greater than Tylenol.)

Studies even show that due to marijuana's ability to clear the lungs of smog, pollutants, and cigarette smoke, it may actually reduce your risk of emphysema, bronchitis, and lung cancer. Smokers of cannabis have been shown to outlive non-smokers in some areas by up to two years. Medium to heavy tobacco smokers will live seven to ten years longer if they also

smoke marijuana.

Pot messes up your brain. Cigarettes mess up your lungs. Cigarettes are addicting and considered worse. Pot is at least naturally grown, less damaging.

AnswerBoth marijuana and tobacco can cause lung damage, and marijuana also puts THC in your system, which remains there for several years even if you quit smoking it. There are 599 different additives that are legal to put in cigarettes, some of which can kill. See the links below for more information.

Answer 2

I'll put it this way, tobacco kills more than 5,000,000 people each year and leaves many others with cancer and other diseases. Marijuana has never been reported to kill anyone and is used to treat cancer, reverse the effects of tobacco and treat many other diseases and conditions.

Answer 3

marijuana, because it is 20x more potant that ciggarettes and you never know what your going to get with marijuana.

smoking one joint is like smoking 20 cigarettes.

Don't study that, weed is actually better than cigarettes because cigars have tobacco which is like tar which sticks to your lungs and corrodes it. It also has nicotine which is the thing you get addicted to. Marijuana has been proven to help protect against lung cancer which cigarettes cause. plus it helps get the crap cigars put in your lung out.

So in in my opinion and thanks to the research I've done, marijuana is actually better.

Answer 4

Cigarettes can give you cancer. Pot can make you paranoid.

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I have never used marijuana (or any other illegal drug) nor do I smoke tobacco, but I believe pot is usually bulked with tobacco to make the joint. If so then you encounter the hazards associated with both substance.

Answer 5

cigarrette smoking is the worst thing to do to the body. Weed has no harmful effects at all.

Answer 6

Cigarettes have much more harmful chemicals than marijuana but you hold marijuana smoke in your lungs longer than cigarettes, which is why it is also bad. I think cigarettes are worse.

Answer 7

Though the two substances contain many of the same components, certain study suggests low to moderate use of marijuana is less harmful to users' lungs than exposure to tobacco.