Since you smoke it – it is gotta be the same! Whatever you smoke – cigarettes or joints – it is inevitable to get yourself a lung cancer or something horrible like that. This is what most people believe, but is this true?

First of all, people who smoke marijuana do it much less frequent than people smoking regular cigarettes. Once a day versus once an hour makes a big difference! And most people do not smoke every day anyway, so lower frequency also minimizes the exposure to toxins, even if you mix it with tobacco. Commercial cigarettes consist not only from tobacco, but also a plethora of chemicals that makes them taste better, burn faster, extinguish quicker, and so on. All that foreign stuff is as harmful as the tobacco itself, if not more. So if you roll your own cigarettes you probably eliminate a good half of toxins that your body does not need at any rate. Additionally, there is some scientific evidence – studies have proven that there is no connection between marijuana use (even the long-term) and lung or UAT cancers. Also, tobacco smoke is more destructive to bronchial tubes than cannabis, so such long-term effects as emphysema are not connected to marijuana use at all.