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In reply to the discussion: Pot smokers don't puff away lung health: study [View all]caseymoz
(5,763 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 12, 2012, 07:37 AM - Edit history (1)
There is not another animal, not in our family tree, not any other phylum that smokes anything. So, this means: in terms of evolutionary biology, there's no way lungs are adapted for it. Period. It's not in the natural practice for any pair lungs to be found in the animal kingdom. If we ever find an exception, it will likely be pretty far off our branch.
This means that smoking is as industrial a process as any distillery or a sausage factory. And comparatively, the distillery and sausage factory are far less crude.
That is rock solid reasoning, and you need a mountain of evidence to disprove it. Smoke is not good in any way for your lungs. There is no argument with this unless you've got double blind studies to show this isn't the case.
I might be for legalization, but when pot advocates can't seem to grasp the obvious fact that smoking anything is bad for the lungs, it shakes whatever trust I have for the rest of their arguments. I begin to think they are too caught up with the pleasure of pot to think straight about it, or even be truthful with themselves much less anybody else. And falling in love with what brings you pleasure, to the point where you can't consider it's less beneficial than it looks, is not just a quality of marijuana users.
Are you suggesting smoking a joint will relieve an asthma attack? I've not heard anybody go that far. Bronchodilators, BTW, are not needed unless your bronchial passages are constricting. They're not doing you more good using them all the time just because they help you in that situation. So don't argue that a bronchodilator is good for lung health. Open passages aren't the only thing needed for your lungs to exchange gases. Meanwhile, you still get all the side-effects and unintended consequences from a bronchodilator. That's why healthy people don't take them for nothing. At least intelligent ones don't.