Why is smoking weed “better” than smoking cigarettes or vaping? Aren’t you inhaling harmful foreign substances in all cases?
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Nothing is supposed to be in your lungs except clean air. Anything else can, and will eventually cause problems.
Short answer : in absolute terms, smoking weed creates more tar and other nasty compounds than tobacco.
However, you normally smoke a **lot** less weed than your do tobacco.
Second, substances in smoked cannabis also trigger/enhance apoptosis. That’s the process that causes cells with mutations or other damage to stop reproducing and die. We *think* that there are better outcomes with pot, and fewer instances of problems because apoptosis triggers cause damaged cells to die rather than hanging around and reproducing, and accumulating more damage until they hit a malignant mutation.
Nothing is supposed to be in your lungs except clean air. Anything else can, and will eventually cause problems.
As someone who has done all of them – weed burning is harsh on lungs. You also get chunkies in your throat. Now a herbal vaporizer is ideal
Short answer : in absolute terms, smoking weed creates more tar and other nasty compounds than tobacco.
However, you normally smoke a **lot** less weed than your do tobacco.
Second, substances in smoked cannabis also trigger/enhance apoptosis. That’s the process that causes cells with mutations or other damage to stop reproducing and die. We *think* that there are better outcomes with pot, and fewer instances of problems because apoptosis triggers cause damaged cells to die rather than hanging around and reproducing, and accumulating more damage until they hit a malignant mutation.
smoking anything is bad for u, even siting next to a campfire is
thats why edibles rule and nicotine addicts should vape
As someone who has done all of them – weed burning is harsh on lungs. You also get chunkies in your throat. Now a herbal vaporizer is ideal
A small note on vaping vs smoking (anything).
For people who live in the EU (or are still affected by EU laws *cough* UK) vaping is safer than both. That’s not to say that vaping is *safe*, just *safer*. The reason I specify the EU is because the components of e-liquid are tightly regulated so that they contain exactly one toxic chemical – nicotine. Anything else should be deemed safe for inhalation. I’m aware that in the US you don’t necessary know what else is being thrown into the juice.
The long term effects of vaping are not known but we know there are dangers associated with nicotine, such as reduced fertility and – if used during pregnancy- a higher risk to the child. In any case, vaping is pretty objectively a *good* thing for *ex-smokers* who have had difficulty quitting in other ways – it’s just another version of NRT. But it’s only good in the sense that it is much, much less harmful than breathing in smoke of any kind. It can only be a bad thing for non smokers who take up vaping though.
smoking anything is bad for u, even siting next to a campfire is
thats why edibles rule and nicotine addicts should vape
It’s important to realise the difference between “less harmful” and “harmless” especially in situations like this.
Inhaling smoke full-stop is harmful, so whether it be from a car exhaust, a house fire, tobacco or cannabis, you’re doing damage to your lungs.
The reason people say cannabis is *less harmful* than tobacco is because of the different chemicals contains in smokable versions of the plants, those in tobacco being substantially more harmful.
There is a similar story surrounding vaping, although I’m not entirely sure if we’ve figured out yet just how bad vaping is, but I believe the prevailing sentiment is that again, it’s **less harmful but still dangerous**.
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