Marijuana vs Tabacco

Subject

Why marijuana still illegal and tobacco no, especially since marijuana is helpful for ill people and tobacco cause cancer something.

Thesis statement

Cannabis or Marijuana use is associated with the use of other substances, including tobacco and illegal drugs.

Introduction

There are many studies that report on the harmful health effects of smoking tobacco, such as cancer, respiratory disease (bronchitis, emphysema and asthma) and heart disease. While there have been few studies conducted on the effects of marijuana smoke, there is growing evidence that there are similar major health concerns for those who smoke marijuana. Tobacco and marijuana smoke both contain harmful chemicals which are absorbed when inhaled (Ream et al, 199-208). This exposes the smoker's lungs to greater risks of developing major respiratory diseases and/ or cancer. What are the links between smoking tobacco and marijuana? International reports have found specific links between smoking both tobacco and marijuana, such as:

Many people who try marijuana have previously smoked tobacco

Many current marijuana smokers are also current cigarette smokers

Early onset of tobacco use may act as a gateway to future marijuana use

Nicotine dependence can develop if tobacco is used in combination with marijuana

Smoking both marijuana and tobacco increases health risks rather than smoking each alone (Van der Kooy et al, 801-4).

Comparative essay on Marijuana vs Tobbaco

People who smoke cigarettes consume Marijuana more frequently than non-smokers. The smoking of Marijuana are often addicted to nicotine. The association tobacco-Marijuana is widespread, especially among young people. However, the same trend can be observed in adults, although Marijuana use decreases after age 25. Currently, among adolescents Westerners, the cigarette is associated in over 25% of the cases to the resin of the Marijuana, hashish, in the form of joint, a mixture of tobacco and hashish. Often young people begin smoking cigarettes and then you associate the hashish. However, several studies have shown that the consumption of Marijuana could also drag the young non-smokers to tobacco consumption (Patton et al, 1518-1525).

The young adults who use Marijuana have a lot more likely to become addicted to nicotine, the more Marijuana consumption is frequent and began at a young age. In this regard, a study conducted in Scotland in 2004 showed that for a non-smoker daily consumption of Marijuana at the age of 21 years triples the risk of becoming addicted to nicotine. In 2005, Patton and others have shown that adolescents who had never smoked but who had already used Marijuana had a 8.4 times greater chance of being initiated to tobacco than adolescents who had never used Marijuana. The study also shows that daily Marijuana users, if they were not already dipendendi nicotine at the age of 20 years, ran a 3.6 times higher risk of becoming at the age of 24 years. In this way, we now know that tobacco consumption facilitates the transition to the use of Marijuana and vice-versa. In addition, Marijuana and tobacco interact (Amos et al, 77-81).

This interaction has not been explained yet, however, to date. It is known that tobacco increases the ...