Can smoking weed put tar in your lungs?
Only if there's tar in what you smoke. Not sure if Rollie have tar in it but it's fact that your r burning it which produce dangerous chemicals.Lots of people use it as medicine. It benefits them in many ways but the downside is that they inhale all chemicals that r produced from burning.Even people dabbing concentrate r heating the shatter etc to an extent where it is burned.Solution :Vaping is many folds safer than smoking ( both cigarettes and cannabis). There's no smoke as no burning is involved. It's most effective way to inhale nicotine but it wasn't very effective way to inhale cannabis concentrates without wasting too much until recently.Most effective method I have found is to use some dilutant for turning shatter /budder etc pieces into liquid so it's vape-able . There's been few random names out there e.g vapor extract and ejmix etc but they all kinda made shatter taste bad. The best i have tried so far is by this brand voodoo Drips.Simply put few drops of that liquid into shatter and mix it together. Put in a vape pen. A gram of shatter lasts me now Tripple the time just with this simple method. Becuase nothing is burned and wasted and nothing is sticking on bongs and wasted.Some liquids also add flavours to shatter. I love strawberry and Honeydew.I’ll find the link and post to website later here.
How much tar does smoking weed produce?
As others have mentioned it produces about 3–4 times as much as cigarettes do.I want to add however that at the same time cannabis seems to have anti-carcinogenic properties, meaning it helps fighting off cancerous cells or cancer forming particles. The two effects seem to counteract each other and balance out as studies have not found a correlation between marijuana smoking and lung cancer. This is not 100% confirmed and researched but the effects suggest that this is indeed valid.
A cigarette produces tar when smoked. What does a joint (only weed-no tobacco) produce?
Well i have no much idea about itBut going through a few online sites found few relevant posts“ Smoking marijuana is far more dangerous than smoking cigarettes, according to a group of scientists in New Zealand.The researchers found that smoking one joint is equivalent to 20 cigarettes in terms of lung cancer.While studies in the past have shown that marijuana can cause cancer, few have actually established a strong link between marijuana use and the actual incidence of lung cancer.For the study, researchers interviewed 79 lung cancer patients in an effort identify the main risk factors for the disease, such as smoking, family history and occupation. The patients were questioned about alcohol and marijuana consumption.In the high-exposure group, lung cancer risk rose by 5.7 times for patients who smoked more than a joint a day for 10 years, or two joints a day for 5 years, after adjusting for other variables, including cigarette smoking."Cannabis smokers end up with five times more carbon monoxide in their bloodstream (than tobacco smokers)," team leader Richard Beasley, at the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, said in a news release.The scientists also noted that marijuana could be expected to harm the airways more than tobacco since its smoke contained twice the level of carcinogens, such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons, compared with tobacco cigarettes."There are higher concentrations of carcinogens in cannabis smoke...what is intriguing to us is there is so little work done on cannabis when there is so much done on tobacco,” said Beasley."In the near future we may see an 'epidemic' of lung cancers connected with this new carcinogen. And the future risk probably applies to many other countries, where increasing use of cannabis among young adults and adolescents is becoming a major public health problem,” he added.”Source onlineSmoking One Joint is Equivalent to 20 Cigarettes, Study SaysAnd about your brother dont ask him to switch instead ask him to reduce the consumption of alcohol and smoking and later on he would quit it with timeAnd for helping him reduce you can also check my answerMonica Pawar's answer to How do I make my brother stop eating tobacco?Hope this would be helpfull
What's in the tar of a marijuana joint exactly?
Cannabis smoke differs from that of tobacco in a few notable ways. It contains roughly twenty times more ammonia, five times more hydrogen cyanide and nitrogen oxides, but lower levels of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Some studies have refuted the drastically higher ammonia and hydrogen cyanide levels, but all studies conclude that there’s less PAHs. Recent research has indicated that secondhand cannabis smoke impairs the cardiovascular system even more than secondhand tobacco smoke. It impairs the blood vessels’ ability to dilate, and seems to last longer for cannabis smoke than it does for tobacco smoke.Specifically, the carcinogens benzene, naphthalene and toluene have been found in cannabis smoke. Benzene is formed during the natural processes of combustion and can be damaging to the reproductive system when inhaled in large quantities. Naphthalene is a potential carcinogen, and research on it is lacking. In high concentrations, it’s been shown to destroy red blood cells, and in one severe case was shown to cause organ damage. Toluene is a benzene derivative, though thankfully far less toxic. Overexposure to this compound has been shown to have negative effects on the central nervous system (CNS), as well as symptoms of headaches, nausea, fatigue, sleepiness and irritation of the eyes and upper respiratory tract. An important reminder is that traditional smoking of marijuana will not guarantee any of the above issues; those studies were done under specific circumstances involving unrealistically large amounts of the carcinogens, much more than would be produced in traditional smoking, even when taken to the extreme.