Is marijuana smoke just as harmful to your lungs as cig smoke?

Question

i am having a debate with a friend of mine, so is it just as bad??

Answer 1

I guess all smokes have equall chances of harming your lungs or health as they involve inhaling smoke..

Answer 2

No its not and here are some reasons why

1.Marijuana does not have as much if any tar in marijuana as in a ciggarette.

2.Marijuana does not give a baby any birth defects although i wouldnt recomend smoking while pregunant unlike ciggaretts

3.Normally when you smoke marijuana you dont smoke 20 joints a day 365 days a year like you would a ciggarett pack a day smoker (some people smoke less than a pack while others smoke more a pack a day is the average)

4.Ciggaretts ARE smelly (not in a good way) and are mentally and physically addicting (my mother used to tape ciggarett butts together just cause she couldnt afford to buy a pack) unlike marijuana why do you think you have withdraw symptoms with ciggaretts (yes i do understand that if you smoked marijuana for a long period of time you too willl also have withdraw symptoms but that takes a high tolerance)

Answer 3

I don't think it is as bad because you smoke less marijuana than regular cigs, even if you smoke a lot of marijuana.
I'm sure the smoke does the same damage, just takes longer.

Answer 4

Yes it is just as bad and worse for other things.

The difference is that cigarette smokers generaly smoke more than twenty per day and some a lot more than that.

Pot smokers on average do not smoke pot efery day and when they do smoke it is only a couple or so but never twenty in one day.

Those of you that think Pot is ok had better think again. It is up to you if you want to smoke pot or not but never think it is not harmful to you.

Answer 5

I'm no doctor, but i would get some tests done to see the impact it had on my lungs (don't forget, people are different). You can make a lung capacity test (this compares your lung capacity with your age group) X ray - see if you have any problems. I know it takes quite a while to regenerate, and don't want to scare you, but smokers don't get fully recovered until after about 15 years (and that's just the risk of heart and lung diseases).

Answer 6

one Marijuana smoke is 4 times worse than one cig. just dont smoke.

Answer 7

pot smoke is way worse!!!! I HAVE SMOKED POT FOR AROUND 20YEARS AND CIGARETTES ABOUT15 YEARS I HAVE ALWAYS SMOKED WAY MORE POT THAN SMOKES. LAST SUMMER I WAS SMOKING POT ALL DAY LONG WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND SMOKE SOME MORE CONSTANTLY SMOKING POT NOT A SMART THING TO DO MY HEAD WAS SPINNING I COULDN'T HOLD A THOUGHT, CONVERSATION OR MY BLADDER!!! NOT FUNNY AT ALL I LOOK BACK AND CANT EVEN BEGIN TO TELL YOU HOW STUPID I HAD BECOME!!! AT ONE POINT IN MY LIFE I HAD HERD THAT ONE JOINT WAS TO EQUIVALENT TO SMOKING 10 CIGS ALL I KNOW IS MY LUNGS FEEL SO MUCH BETTER TODAY THAT I HAVEN'T SMOKED POT SINCE DEC 1 2006. I CAN BREATHE AGAIN!!!

Answer 8

LOL, half the people say yes and half no!
It is not as bad because tobacco companies put a lot of toxic ingredients in the cigarettes, marijuana does not have that (because it is just grown, carried around and then sold) Its one of the things that big business and the government does NOT mess around with!!

Answer 9

Heavy marijuana smokers show less evidence
of lung injury than heavy tobacco smokers, and it may be
cannabinoids that are protecting them from developing a condition like emphysema. in any case though smoking enough of almost anything will mess you up

Answer 10

Its suppose to be 4X worse or something.
Marijuana gets you high, cig doesnt. Think about it.
I had to go to a rehab thing and they were lecturing me on how much worse Marijuana is than cigs.
Soooo If the pros are telling me that..
Im sure it is right.

*Even though it is manmade..mj is definitly not how it used to be back n the day.. growers use chemicals too. they want to give you the best buzz..