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<br /> FROM RMERLUNGGSSN KC~~Nta FHONE N0. 325 ©BE8 Jul. D1 1597 12~ SJRM P3 <br /> AMEftlCAN LUNG ASSOCIA?TIONm <br /> of Hownli <br /> Mounting evidence by medical researchers indicates that marijuana smoking <br /> may be even more harmful than cigarette smokir•.g. <br /> • It takes 10 to 2u years of heavy cigarette smoking to produce the same <br /> type of severe sinusitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis ur emphysema that less <br /> than a year of daily marijuana smoking produces. (Actording to <br /> Nicolas A. Pace, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, New York <br /> University School of Medlclne.) <br /> • Marijuana smoke contains 50 percent mure cancer-causing materials <br /> than tobacco smoke. (Accvrding t0 Donald P. Tashkin, MD, Associate <br /> Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary Division, University of California at <br /> Los Angeles School of Medicine.) <br /> • The manner of smoking, particularly the deep inhaling technique by <br /> marijuana users, inczeases the exposure of dangerous elements to the <br /> lungs, The tObaKO smoker {s more likely to purchase filtered cigarettes <br /> and will not puff the dgarette to the end. On. the other hand, <br /> marijuana users usually smoke their cigarettes to the very end, <br /> enhancing and maximizing their exposure M tar and other respiratory <br /> irritants. (According to Robert L. DuPont, will, President, American <br /> Council on Marijuana, former Director o[ the National Institute on <br /> Drug Abuse; President, Institute for Behavior and Health.) <br /> • Because of the difference in smoking technique, one marijuana <br /> cigarette cart delivez as much tar as a dozen or more cigarettes. In <br /> addition, a single marijuana cigarette smoked for 15 minutes produces <br /> as high a heel of carbon monoxide In the blood of the smoker as 10 to <br /> 20 tobacco cigarettes smoked during the murse of the day. (Aaording <br /> to Robert L. [)ttPont, MDJ <br /> • Marijuana smoke is much like tobacco smoke with two exceptions. <br /> First, marijuana does not contain nicotine. Second, it contains the <br /> psychoactive agent TIiC (delta-9 iectrahydrocannabinol); tobacco do?s <br /> not. (THC has mild bronchodilatory effects, but it is not useful ~ s a <br /> dru$ for branchospasm.) (From September 1980 American Lung <br /> Assotiation Bulletin article "Marijuana Smoking--A Nations! <br /> Spidemic" and Hawaii Thoracic Society) <br /> Appbvea by the Hawa~~ Thvrdctc Soclely <br /> F6eviGetl OZi96 <br /> R17 0 <br /> <br />