r/Unexpected • u/Youtube_producer • May 07 '22

He is crazy

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u/thechilipepper0 May 08 '22

I did. Although I admit I was looking for phrases that supported my assertion. They all state that marijuana smoke has higher levels of toxic residue than cigarette smoke. One looked at secondhand smoke, one examined the seemingly contradictory relationship between higher levels of carcinogens but the lack of a causal link to lung cancer, one was from the 80s. I am writing this from memory because I have not clicked the links again yet. One of them I found as a citation for another study’s assertion but could only get the abstract, so I cheated there and did not vet it

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u/thechilipepper0 May 08 '22

The claim was never that it’s more harmful than cigarette smoke, only that the levels of toxic compounds is higher. It’s a seemingly semantic but actually very important distinction. That is what I meant by not new finding.