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POT vs TOBACCO - Tobacco Contains Ionizing Radiation

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Prohibitionists scare people with comparisons between marijuana and tobacco smoke. Tobacco smoke is bad, therefore all smoke is bad the reasoning goes. If somebody suggested that burning PCBs (dioxin), high sulphur coal, firewood, nuclear waste and natural gas all produced the same combustion products and all were equally dangerous, most people would demand proof before accepting such a ridiculous claim. But make the claim that tobacco smoke and pot smoke are equally bad and no one questions it. But what does science say.......

There is one very important difference between marijuana smoke and tobacco smoke. Tobacco smoke contains ionizing radiation and cannabis smoke does not. The tobacco plant's roots and the sticky leaf surface absorb radioactive polonium-210 and lead-210 isotopes which are inhaled with tobacco smoke. A pack and a half a day smoker receives a daily dose of radiation equal to what a person would have received standing downwind from Three Mile Island nuclear reactor during the first 21 hours after the infamous accident. Pack and a half a day smokers are exposed to the equivalent of over 300 hundred chest x-rays every year from this ionizing radiation.
JackHerer

2 responses // POT vs TOBACCO - Tobacco Contains Ionizing Radiation

  • Very interesting, didn't know that about tobacco smoke.
    piff
  • Now that's one great comparison. Yet you're a fool if you smoke nature's medicine, but you're just another citizen if you consume non-beneficial cancer sticks. The government did well in brainwashing their citizens.
    cerealforeal

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