Marlboro or Weed Secondhand?

I am not a prude. In my younger days, I did more than my fair share of "experimenting"... These days an occasional cocktail on the porch breathing the salt air will do it for me. Fact is, I could give a hoot about legal marijuana. Just isn't something that takes much space in my frontal cortex....... Having said all that, I was a dedicated smoker until ten years ago and still love to be near the aroma of somebody enjoying a butt, but I also note that smoking has become so frowned upon socially that the average person will look upon a smoker as though they have the plague these days. And if I have to hear some holier than thou person spout off about second hand smoke again, I just might shoot them.... I simply want to know why those same standards don't apply to the weed smokers? My wife is in downtown Denver this week and swears she gets a "contact high" each time she leaves the hotel. I was out of town on business not long ago myself in a legalized state and noticed the same. Light a Marlboro and you get the stare of death.... But there was no getting away from the weed aroma everywhere I went. Why the double standard?

 

Superiority Projection. That is all it is.

I am pizzzed off at all the candy being openly sold in the U.S., because my tax $ have to pay for diabetics.

How dare you order mint chocolate chip ce cream in front of me, instead of fat free protein laden probiotic yogurt (and no chocolate sprinkles or processed phony sugary corn starch fruit), you miscreant. My tax $ have to pay for your heart problems.

 

How dare Juul sell vaping liquid targeting kids with exotic flavorings like wild cherry and such. They should have been more responsible and delivered their product in brownies, cakes, hard candy and ect. like the weed industry.

 

Maybe it has something to do with secondhand smoke from cigarettes causing cancer and cannabis not only doesn't cause cancer, but no one has also ever even overdosed on cannabis. Apples and oranges.

 

Actually, the parallel I am drawing here is that we are in a place in this nation where the typical thought process is "it's all about me". Boomers smoke cigs and that's all bad. Gen-X prefers weed so get over it.... Frankly, I don't give two hoots about the butts or the weed. I care about the self absorbed thought process that has permeated our youth. It is destructive in the long term.

 

I don't like the smell of burning tobacco or burning cannabis. I've never been a smoker, but it doesn't bother me if I'm around either for a limited time.

 

I think it's the notion that smoking weed in public is sort of a "Hey, this is legal now and I don't care what you think... hahahah look at me" attitude. Fine. Whatever.

 

Apples and Oranges? Hey Joe, that's good to know. More like crap and piss. The old, global warming, global cooling, second hand smoke boggy man. I wonder how many "high" folks killed someone when they were "spaced out?"

 

I disagree but I am also unsurprised that another older generation thinks the younger generation is failing. In reality, I think that you have little understanding of the younger generation and that frustrates you. That's all I'm seeing here. You need to stop being so self-absorbed about your generation.

 

Hey Joe, I hope we both are dead when the younger generation finishes losing our country. There is a large % in that generation who are lost to the "American Way." I do not include @freshmeat's child in that group.

 

Sort of weird, Clown, because I don't recall one damn person in any position in the government, military or university ever mentioning to the Troops that cigarettes are dangerous, or second hand smoke is dangerous, unless the cigarettes fell on the jungle floor in Indian Country and disclosing your position, or you lit up in proximity to the fellows trying to kill you. Strange that cigs were included in rations. Yikes...who knew?

On that weed never killed anybody, one hell of a lot of Troops went down in the fire, because they did not have any idea what the hell was going on, and got fragged and /or in the process caused other Troops to die.

Funny though, there were a hell of a lot of clowns in charge in the government and military and universities worried about flat foot. Go figure. I guess it had something to do with controlling a weapon with your toes.

 

Says another octogenarian.

 

Absolutely, and that comment tells me a lot. Since YOU HIDE your profile, you must be a youngster which explains EXACTLY why you are so IGNORANT. You are part of the hand-out, lazy, generation. l

 

I'm retired Einstein.

 

Let's not get ahead of ourselves though, virtually any combustion reaction inhaled can cause cancer.

There is evidence smoking marijuana causes cancer. It's tough to tell how much it raises cancer rates and the evidence isn't as strong as it is for tobacco, but it does elevate cancer risk.

For the question of the thread, I think there's been an effective anti-smoking PR campaign that has made it seem like smoking tobacco is inherently dirtier than other smokeables. I used to be a fairly heavy smoker, but successfully quit a bit over a year ago and haven't touched it since. I can relate to what you're talking about @Mopar Dude, and it almost feels nostalgic when I smell someone else smoking.

Marijuana is also going through a "cool" phase like smoking did decades ago. It's also interesting that vaping doesn't garner the same reaction as cigarettes. When it first started becoming popular and wasn't technically banned indoors yet, I even remember people smoking regularly in my college lecture halls during class.

 

Any smoke from a fire can cause lung cancer with enough exposure. That's not the point. Cigarettes are a known carcinogen AND physically addictive so that you keep smoking. Cannibus isn't filled with 600 chemicals.

 

Good post!

 

You may be surprised

Many of those chemicals aren't inherent to tobacco, they are a product of the combustion reaction. Plus while I'm not pro-smoking, I find the "chemical" argument disingenuous. H20 is a chemical. Plants like tobacco and marijuana are complex biological organisms composed of and containing a wide array of chemical components.

 

Correct, when organic material is burned it releases benzene and other toxins.

 

I want to start a society, and the first issue is protection of the society, which is paramount. The society will need military and LEO individuals.

The society has a choice to make: the military and LEO individuals can have daily tobacco rations or marijuana rations, but no alcohol.


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