Posted on 01/27/2008 5:32:48 AM PST by saganite
A new study finds that the development of bullous lung disease occurs in marijuana smokers approximately 20 years earlier than tobacco smokers.
A condition often caused by exposure to toxic chemicals or long-term exposure to tobacco smoke, bullous lung disease (also known as bullae) is a condition where air trapped in the lungs causes obstruction to breathing and eventual destruction of the lungs.
At present, about 10% of young adults and 1% of the adult population smoke marijuana regularly. Researchers find that the mean age of marijuana-smoking patients with lung problems was 41, as opposed to the average age of 65 years for tobacco-smoking patients.
The study "Bullous Lung Disease due to Marijuana" also finds that the bullous lung disease can easily go undetected as patients suffering from the disease may show normal chest X-rays and lung functions. High-resolution CT scans revealed severe asymmetrical, variably sized bullae in the patients studied. However, chest X-rays and lung functions were normal in half of them.
Lead author Dr. Matthew Naughton says, "What is outstanding about this study is the relatively young ages of the lung disease patients, as well as the lack of abnormality on chest X-rays and lung functions in nearly half of the patients we tested."
He added, "Marijuana is inhaled as extremely hot fumes to the peak inspiration and held for as long as possible before slow exhalation. This predisposes to greater damage to the lungs and makes marijuana smokers are more prone to bullous disease as compared to cigarette smokers."
Patients who smoke marijuana inhale more and hold their breath four times longer than cigarette smokers. It is the breathing manoeuvres of marijuana smokers that serve to increase the concentration and pulmonary deposition of inhaled particulate matter – resulting in greater and more rapid lung destruction.
This paper is published in the January 2008 issue of Respirology.
If you attended college in the 70’s, you would be aware of a malady called “Bong Throat” or “Bong Cough”. It was pretty nasty.
I don't do drugs but I have to agree.
What's missing from the article is any reference to how common this disease is. Yes, marijuana smokers may get it 20 years sooner but if there are only 4 cases in the U.S. annually then who cares. The fact that they left this "vital statistic" out speaks volumes for me.
Fall off? Food that causes the munchies and the butt falls off? Noooooo, try the butt grows like 'The Blob' and takes over!
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> You cited (and misrepresented) him in support of legalized drugs. Nice 180.
I cited him in support of reducing governmental intrusion into personal freedoms and encouraging personal responsibility.
I personally believe that he would never have supported a war on drugs were it not for it being Nancy's hobby horse. There's no way to know, of course, so I'll leave that as my personal opinion.
The fact that Reagan was not a perfect President did not detract from his ability to express Conservative principles.
it is BS.........unlike tobacco, marijuana is degradeable
Ummmm. Are you cherry-picking a vice?
And if marijuana, then why not other "soft" drugs such as nitrous, shrooms, peyote, GHB, Ketamine, Ecstacy, etc.?
I care that people choose bad habits, and then form addictions. I care enough that I'd rather see those people treated for addiction than jailed. The central failure of the "War on Drugs" has been that it treats addiction, a public health problem, as a criminal justice problem.
I care that people choose bad diets. I care that people choose promiscuity and infidelity. I care that people choose ignorance over knowledge. I just don't consider any of those "sins" to be a just application of criminal law.
"Global warming is not a myth. Many people see Global Warming as the most threatening force of destruction on our planet." --www.hempevolution.org/ecology/ecology.htm
Dave's not here, man!
I smoked pot in the idiocy of my youth. Pot smokers inhale more deeply, and hold it in longer, so this study makes sense to me.
The people I know that continued to smoke pot are in much poorer health and have passed on at earlier ages.
For sale.
It is obvious that you do not even glance at the evidence provided you, but just plow ahead with your own misguided "feelings" and limited information to crank out idiotic propaganda that suits your agenda. Perhaps a symptom of one whose career was dependent on the public dole, perhaps even the drug war itself.
We'll slow down the rest of the class so you can keep up.
Nothing here about sales...HopeNet, which is well-regarded in the medical cannabis community, provided free cannabis to 100 core patients who are members of the cooperative.
Which has nothing to do with using dope, which Reagan opposed.
The theory is that you couldn't possibly have any money left if you were buying drugs because you would obviously buy all you could afford!
Yea but your a Doctor.
I could have sworn "exploding pancreas" was on that list. Everything else is.
(The Exploding Pancreas would be a great name for a rock band.)
You should have read your link before you embarrassed yourself.
No quote, natch.
Sure! A couple weeks after Satan starts ice skating to work!
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