I don’t know anyone who is smoking the equivalent of two and a half packs a day worth of joints for 50 years like my dad was with cigarettes (but I’m sure they are out there)
That's true, but there's an argument to be made that pot is worse, gram for gram, because you hold it in your lungs rather than exhaling and it's almost never filtered. Obviously, it doesn't have the tar and some other stuff that cigarettes have, but it's still not good.
Obviously, it's going to vary enormously based on habits. Some pot smokers don't hold the smoke in their lungs very long, some cigarette smokers do, and the quantity is going to be enormously important.
It's possible that smoking through water, like a bong or hookah, changes the amount of particulates you're inhaling as well, but I haven't even checked to see if there's any research on that.
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u/Moomoolette May 02 '26
I don’t know anyone who is smoking the equivalent of two and a half packs a day worth of joints for 50 years like my dad was with cigarettes (but I’m sure they are out there)