World No Tobacco Day: Is Smoking Weed Just as Bad as Cigarettes?

In honor of World No Tobacco Day, MERRY JANE breaks down the myths.

We inhale weed deeper than cigarettes and hold it in longer, but smoking tobacco can cause cancer while smoking marijuana can help prevent it. How is this possible? 

May 31 is World No Tobacco Day, a global 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco. In honor of this anti-cig celebration we explain how the world's most potent plant stacks up against tobacco. 

Cigarettes Damage the Lungs

The smoke from cigarettes cause damaged cells in your lungs to multiply, this can lead to the development of tumors. The THC and CBD in marijuana has a therapeutic effect.

Tobacco Causes Tumors to Grow

Smoking weed puts 10 times the amount of tar in your lungs than cigarettes. That tar that gets absorbed into the lungs can cause cells to die...

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