Study Adds to Evidence that Cigarettes are Gateway to Marijuana

American Academy of Pediatrics ^ | 5/5/2013

[Olog-hai]

Teen smokers who rationalize their use of cigarettes by saying, “At least, I’m not doing drugs,” may not always be able to use that line.

New research to be presented Sunday, May 5, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC, supports the theory that cigarettes are a gateway drug to marijuana.

“Contrary to what we would expect, we also found that students who smoked both tobacco and marijuana were more likely to smoke more tobacco than those who smoked only tobacco,” said study author Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH, FAAP, an investigator at Seattle Children’s Research Institute and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington. …

[Olog-hai]

This is just the viewpoint of the study, of course.

[2ndDivisionVet]

These are the true gateway drug! LOL

[Berlin_Freeper]

Woman kicked off plane for singing Whitney Houston song

[21twelve]

I’m pretty sure my thumb-sucking led to cigarette smoking later on in life. Seriously - an “oral fixation” that included chewing tobacco, tootsie pops (after quit smoking), beer drinking, and hard candies (after quit drinking).

I guess I skipped the pot-smoking stage.

[Cowboy Bob]

I thought marijuana counteracted the evils of tobacco? Marijuana is the new wonder drug. /sarc

[veritas2002]

The sole qualification for President of the United States of America that Barack Obama was able to offer was the fact that he was Black (and only half Black at that).