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Does smoking marijuana cause lung cancer?

Publication: Bandolier
Publication Date: 01-AUG-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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One might well think so. We know that burning plant products produces smoke, which contains tars, carcinogens, and other unpleasant compounds. We know that breathing smoke gets these materials deep into our lungs - which is why, in part, inhaling drugs can be an important option for drug We a...

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...delivery. know that breathing smoke regularly, as in cigarette and other tobacco smoking, leads to increased rates of lung cancer, in dose dependent manner. OK, we don't have much in the way of randomised trials in humans, but we have mountains of observational data.

So our starting point is to expect marijuana smoking to cause cancer, by simple analogy. But some...

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