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0 pointsprvc3y ago0 comments

The "experts" (by the media's reckoning) haven't yet advocated doing this for marijuana products, which bear no cancer warnings, so I think a great deal of cynicism is warranted here.

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pitaj3y ago· 4 in thread

That's because there's not conclusive evidence that smoking only marijuana causes cancer - especially to the same degree as tobacco.

While it may seem like "smoke is smoke", that doesn't appear to hold for marijuana - and it's not clear why.

sublinear3y ago

Definitely not true. Inhaling combustion byproducts is what causes cancer. Marijuana smokers typically just don't inhale as much smoke as tobacco smokers. Nobody chain smokes joints all day unless they're Snoop Dogg or something.

narag3y ago

I quit tobacco years ago and the last studies I read pointed to smoke and tar, not nicotine, as the specific cause of cancer.

But later when vaporizers got popular they changed the tune to "tobacco is bad, no matter how you consume it". Honestly, I don't know which is true.

Nobody chain smokes joints all day unless they're Snoop Dogg or something.

There are many somethings out there. But vapes are indeed more convenient.

pessimizer3y ago

Your comment doesn't count as conclusive evidence.

collyw3y ago

Oh, they do.

SonicScrub3y ago

I fail to see how a failure to properly label a different product with the appropriate health warnings is a an argument to also fail with a different one. If a risk exists, proper labelling is warranted regardless of substance.

I'd also like to point out that the Canadian Cancer Society (one of the groups highly involved with advocated for labelling) has also issued statements about inhalation (of any substance). So they quite literally have done the thing that you accuse them of having not done.

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