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No, filters really were the biggest step towards a "safer cigarette", despite the official stance that no such thing can ever exist.

Non-filter cigarette smokers are 40% more likely to develop lung cancer and almost twice as likey to die from cancer than filtered cigarette smokers.

*https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/5789/presentation/230...

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I wonder if we're going to start seeing effects of a lot of people increasingly smoking weed habitually, especially joints with no filtering. Certainly not as bad as cigarettes but it still can't be good for you to inhale hot smoke.

There is some evidence that both thc and especially cbd are antiinflammatory, which might make it a little less bad, but yeah, all those odd and highly reactive hydrocarbons can't be good. Breathing anything other than clean air on purpose seems like generally a bad idea.

Maybe this is just my filter bubble (pun intended?) but since legalization, all of the people I knew who smoked weed but not cigarettes just switched to gummies.

I wonder how many people want THC but never wanted to smoke in the first place?

The byproducts of cannabis combustion are certainly not healthy, but the saving grace is that even the heaviest weed smokers inhale far less smoke than cigarette smokers.

And unlike tobacco, safer alternatives exist -- vaping doesn't require combustion, and edibles obviously carry no risk from inhalation.

Funny you mention this, because we’re already seeing it. In fact, I recall reading that unfiltered marijuana smoke is slightly more harmful to the lungs than unfiltered cigarette smoke.

Not if but when.

Inhaling that amount of burnt stuff regardless of source is just not good for you.

Not sure why anyone thinks weed is safer. Tobacco is dried, shredded plant leaves. Weed is ... oh wait.

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