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0 pointsbdhess1y ago0 comments

Stinky is very qualitative. Maybe you grew up around tobacco smokers and so don’t mind the smell? I hate it.

Quantitatively, marijuana smoke is less carcinogenic than tobacco smoke.

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The smell from marijuana smoke lingers and travels in a way tobacco smoke does not. Most people other than users find it significantly more offensive than tobacco.

mattmaroon1y ago

Disagree. If you’re at a concert and someone smokes weed everyone is like “right on”. You smoke a cigarette and people want to fight you.

BenFranklin1001y ago

What does this have to do with how the respective smells linger?

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Reubachi1y ago

Any burning organics will be different sample to sample, and any "smell" judgement of such will be subjective.

Almost objectively, we all have anecdotal memories of being overwhelmed by tobacco residue in a car, room, clothing etc.

^ Not like "someone just smoked a cigarette in here, yuck" but more like "this room is destroyed from 20 years of tobacco smoke, we can't sell this".

I would suspect that very very few people have ever sat in a car and said "someone has smoked cannabis in here for years, it's destroyed."

BenFranklin1001y ago

I don’t care about a car or home destroyed by tobacco use. Those are easy for me to avoid. Sitting on my porch and nightly taking in the smell of weed from a neighbor 50 feet away is a different story. That doesn’t happen with tobacco smoke. The smell of marijuana travels in a way tobacco doesn’t.

xeonmc1y ago

I hate both. Hence I said it should be as strict, if not more.

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BenFranklin1001y ago

The smell from marijuana smoke lingers and travels in a way tobacco smoke does not. Most people other than users find it significantly more offensive than tobacco.

mattmaroon1y ago

Disagree. If you’re at a concert and someone smokes weed everyone is like “right on”. You smoke a cigarette and people want to fight you.

BenFranklin1001y ago

What does this have to do with how the respective smells linger?

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Reubachi1y ago

Any burning organics will be different sample to sample, and any "smell" judgement of such will be subjective.

Almost objectively, we all have anecdotal memories of being overwhelmed by tobacco residue in a car, room, clothing etc.

^ Not like "someone just smoked a cigarette in here, yuck" but more like "this room is destroyed from 20 years of tobacco smoke, we can't sell this".

I would suspect that very very few people have ever sat in a car and said "someone has smoked cannabis in here for years, it's destroyed."

BenFranklin1001y ago

xeonmc1y ago

I hate both. Hence I said it should be as strict, if not more.

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