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JUL 81 '97 1103 HPD CID-KONA 326-4236 p.3 <br /> <br /> r F,O" of IEFS-L!FIuF','. H_l J. lrl rN~~71,3 f'.~;. riJbB 7ur.. ?r± _~7~' ~1: GJ~NIi F, <br /> At~~~Cs41'd ~~~G .;t~YL~TiC,~t~ <br /> of Hawaii <br /> Pd~Q1,~ $A1~R dio7 MARrI~."P1~1,~$'Kd YT~1 , <br /> :mounting evidence by mcd:cd! recearchera i:tdlcat~ ;ha: mari'uana srtttaking <br /> may he even more harmiui than ;igarette smoking. <br /> • Xt takes 10 to 7,U years of heavy cigarette smoking 4o produce the sates <br /> type of sever slnusitie, pharyngitis, Uran_hit;s qtr emphysema that less <br /> than a year' of daily r-~arijuar:a snicking prvtluces. (According ea <br /> NlcOias A. T'ace, MD, As,istant Professor of ?viedicine, ?few Yoxk <br /> L+ztiverstty School of Medicine.) <br /> • Marijuana smoke contait;g 50 percent more cancel-causing materials <br /> titan 4obaccn srnok¢. {Accurdir.g t;y Denaict P. Tashkin, MI?, Associate <br /> Professor of Medicine, d'uin:cr,ary- Dioisior~, ilniversity os California a! <br /> i-as An$elea 5chooi of Medicne_; <br /> • 7ha rnan:,er of smoking, pzrticularly the deep initalin$ technique by <br /> marl}uzna users, increases the exposure of dangerous elements to the <br /> lungs. Tha to',yacco smoker is mare likely io pwchase filtered cigarettzs <br /> and wlll not puft the cigarette to t^e end pn the other hand, <br /> maxi}uana users usually srnoke thel: cigarettes to the very end, <br /> enhancing and maxtrrtizi;lg; their exposure to rar and other respiratory <br /> irr:tant9. (According to itobe~t L DuPon:, `~fU, Pr=silent, American <br /> i:ouncii nn Mar:;uana. f:,rmer Director the; :Varaonal 3r~stitute on <br /> Drug Abuse; President, Tr.s'llute far rSehav:cr ur.d Health ) <br /> ? riecause of the diffe:erne in smot.ing terl~.nlque, one marijuana <br /> cigrsette can dsli~~er as much taz as a dozen n> :no.e ~~igarertes. In <br /> addition, m singic marijuana cigarette srrtakc•~ for t5 rninuies producss <br /> as high a level of carbon monoxids! in the blood of the smoker as lU to <br /> 2C tobacco cigarettes smoked Nor?ng the ^ourse of the dsy. (according <br /> to Robert i- ihtPont, MD.) <br /> • Mari}::ana smoke is much like tobacco smoke wvith ;two exceptions. <br /> First, marijuana does n.at cnntaln ;:icetina. Second, it contai:,s the <br /> psychoactive agent 'THt' (deity-9 iectrahydroearertabinol}; ~bazccY dogs <br /> not. (TI-?C hats mild bronchodilatorv effects, 'out it is not useful s 7 <br /> drug Eo: bronchospasn.) iFron', Septarnber :98^. .0rre:i;.an Lung <br /> A654ctatlGn 6u:ictir, ariicla "'r~tari}uana Stnoking-•h. Natioc,~~ <br /> lpiderniN' .tnt! Hav.•ai; Thoracic Soc;ety,) <br /> Approvaa oy tn® rlawee'nnraGc S*~e.~dty <br /> Rc'tvisad C2%Bd <br /> teto <br /> <br />