“More than one-third of participants felt that daily smoking of cannabis was safer than tobacco, and their views increasingly favored safety of cannabis vs tobacco over time (1742 participants [36.7%] in 2017 vs 2107 participants [44.3%] in 2021; P < .001)”

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    1 year ago

    Safer when smoked in the same quantities? Not even close. Marijuana smoke has considerably more tar*. Safer when smoked like a sane person? Definitely.

    *Cigarettes carry their own risks because of added chemicals, but the headline didn’t specify cigarettes, just tobacco.

    • WhoisJohnGalt
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      31 year ago

      Fair point on the Tobacco vs Cigarettes, but generally people interpret the two as synonymous.

      • @theragu40
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        31 year ago

        They do, which highlights how flawed/pointless this survey and headline are.

        Not accounting for the well known association between tobacco and cigarettes when formulating the question is just lazy polling.