Has anyone ever died from smoking marijuana?
While overdosing on THC from marijuana cigarettes is almost impossible, you are still smoking an unfiltered cigarette, with the same tars and carcinogens as a tobacco cigarette (and in all likelihood more so, because it is both unfiltered and unregulated.)So yes, I think it's fair to say people are dying due to smoking weed. Not from an OD but from cancer.In addition, if one really wants to make an issue of it, as Scott points out there are those who may suffer anaphylaxis and death due to allergy as is the case with any ingested or smoked substance. So it can't be said no deaths have occurred. Cancer doesnt kill quickly or with obvious causality, anaphylaxis is rare, birth defects in children may not be linked to their causes and so on, but all are potential costs real peope have to live with.In regard to long-term effects, marijuana use exploded in the 1960's and 70's, so we are only now really getting a large sample from which to observe what a lifetime of smoking can do to the body and mind. There are certainly anecdotal effects, and ones striking enough to have resulted in cultural stereotypes of "stoners." The usual stereotype is someone who is pretty brain impaired with slow slurred speech and significant disconnect from reality. And these stereotypes formed in the 70's and 80's from real world observation of the effects which suggest significant detrimental changes of the brain in young users with years of regular smoking. We really don't know what will happen to the brains and bodies of people who smoke for 40-50 years.There have been a handful of documented cases of cerebral infarction and heart failure as a probable result of smoking marijuana in both the very young and the elderly. And there have been a few studies, and it's reasonable that a number of deaths have resulted from accidents in which marijuana intoxication was a contributing factor.Smoke all you want, I don't care, but don't expect it to have no impact on you or your body. There is no form of intoxication which is free from risk.
What would be an appropriate punishment for a cigarette-smoker who imposes thirdhand smoke from their hair and clothes off-gassing onto non-smokers?
I was thinking if there should be a punishment for people who promote bullying and harassment based on prejudices and manipulative ideas that have no scientific support.What do you think?For example, this question accomplishes every condition.What do you know about third hand smoke? What it's been told by the government and the media, I guess. Yes, but, have you read some studies, have you made some research about what it's been told and the methods employed? Have you applied some critical thought? Or maybe you just accepted every single statement as if it was the word of God. There's a name for that. It's called dogma, and people die and kill every day defending dogmas.The whole thing of third hand smoke is a modern dogma, which doesn't resist scientific scrutiny. But I'm not going to try to convince you. The problem is that it's an institutionalized dogma.Put your cards on the table, show us what you know about it, present some evidence about the harmful effects of third hand smoke. But if you can't, stop bullying.I'm going to tell you a secret: The most long lived generation in human history, the people who is now in their 90s, was exposed to big amounts of second and first hand smoke, maybe more than any other generation. On the other hand, the first generation in human history who has raised with the lowest levels of exposure to second and third hand smoke, presents high incidence of asthma and allergic disorders, maybe the highest in history.Something just doesn't fit here, right?
Which is better, drinking or smoking?
Both are bad, so no “better”.Smoking as I’ve seen ruins one’s lungs, leading to people becoming a lung cripple, then dyingfar more than the so feared lung cancer, from Do Nitrates Cause Cancer?also the very high risks you run for heart attacks, from Smoking and risk of myocardial infarction in women and men: longitudinal population study showing a very much elevated risk especially for younger people, in women twice as much as in men:relative risk for inhaling current smokers versus never smokers by age in men and women up to age 85. The risk of myocardial infarction decreased with age but was higher in women at all ages. The interaction term between smoking and sex did not differ in the four 10 year intervals (P=0.73) and when the age dependence of the risk associated with smoking was adjusted for, the overall ratio between female and male relative risk was 2.01 (1.39 to 2.90).stroke, even only smoking a little Low cigarette consumption and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: meta-analysis of 141 cohort studies in 55 study reportsperipheral arterial disease leading to limb amputationAnd finally how much smoking impacts a person dying, from https://www.researchgate.net/pub... about 10 years of life lost:Contrast this with the elevated risk for dying, related to the amount of alcohol drunk weekly, 1 unit is 14 grams lf pure alcohol, you do the mathFrom Relationship of Alcohol Consumption to All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Cancer-Related Mortality in U.S. AdultsRisk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studiesSo, keeping your alcohol consumption below 150 grms per week (10 units/week) not much higher mortality rate.Smoking is a lot worse.