Is it the chemical makeup of nicotine vs THC/CBD? Given the fact they are both smoked, and burnt plant matter are both inhaled in the lungs, it is said that burnt tobacco smoke is more carcinogenic than cannabis smoke. Also, cannabis is used medicinally and therapeutically whereas tobacco is not.
Edit: I am aware that cannabis is better used medicinally as a tincture or in a non-smoked method (i.e. edibles). That would be the safest method of consumption.
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Nothing- because the premise is not true. Smoke inhalation is unhealthy. Full stop. Burning leaves of any kind produces carbon monoxide and a myriad of chemicals of various toxicity and carcinogenicity.
The difference is likely the dose. A cigarette smoker can smoke a pack or more a day, from the time he is 14 or so, to that point in life where it catches up to him. A marijuana smoker will typically smoke orders of magnitude less than that, possibly one puff on Friday night, or one joint or bowl a day. There are some who will inhale the same amount of smoke as a pack-a-day cigarette smoker, but most of us would agree that is dysfunctional use and it is likely just a phase, but an amount like that is disabling and if it doesn’t end soon that person will be running out of luck in some other way before he develops lung or throat cancer.
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