{"id":3033,"date":"2021-10-19T13:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/marijuana-and-your-risk-of-lung-cancer\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:02:06","slug":"marijuana-and-your-risk-of-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/marijuana-and-your-risk-of-lung-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana and Your Risk of Lung Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The link between&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/smoking-cessation\/stop-smoking-16\/break-cigarette-habit\/slideshow-tips-quit-smoking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tobacco<\/a>&nbsp;smoke and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/lung-cancer\/ss\/slideshow-lung-cancer-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lung cancer<\/a>&nbsp;is well-known. Studies show that marijuana smoke has many of the same harmful substances as tobacco, and often more of them. Among the hazards are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Benzo(a)pyrene<\/li>\n<li>Benz(a)anthracene<\/li>\n<li>Phenols<\/li>\n<li>Vinyl chlorides<\/li>\n<li>Nitrosamines<\/li>\n<li>Reactive oxygen species<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>People also smoke marijuana in a different way than tobacco, possibly posing greater danger to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/lung\/picture-of-the-lungs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lungs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You usually inhale marijuana smoke deeply and hold it in, which gives the toxins more contact with your&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/lung\/rm-quiz-lungs-quiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lung<\/a>&nbsp;tissue and more chance to stick there.<\/li>\n<li>You generally a smoke a joint all the way to the end. Tar, the sticky stuff left after burning, has high levels of harmful substances, and it\u2019s concentrated at the end of a joint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When scientists looked at lung tissue of some people who smoked weed regularly, they found changes that are known to signal the future growth of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancer<\/a>. For complete article go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/lung-cancer\/guide\/marijuana-lung-cancer-risk?ecd=wnl_day_101621&amp;ctr=wnl-day-101621_lead_title&amp;mb=ey%2F15hw9IBd8PPtxici3JnZzEfzmzUWp51pM3CV70UE%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Does Marijuana Cause Lung Cancer? (webmd.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more evidence based science on harms of Cannabis to lungs<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/how-smoking-cannabis-affects-your-lungs\/\" target=\"_blank\">How smoking CANNABIS affects your lungs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/smoking-cannabis-causes-bronchitis-and-changes-to-lung-function\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smoking cannabis causes bronchitis and changes to lung function<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/marijuana-vape-users-are-getting-incurable-cobalt-lung-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marijuana vape users are getting incurable &#8220;cobalt lung&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The link between&nbsp;tobacco&nbsp;smoke and&nbsp;lung cancer&nbsp;is well-known. Studies show that marijuana smoke has many of the same harmful substances as tobacco, and often more of them. Among the hazards are: Benzo(a)pyrene Benz(a)anthracene Phenols Vinyl chlorides Nitrosamines Reactive oxygen species People also smoke marijuana in a different way than tobacco, possibly posing greater danger to the&nbsp;lungs: You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-conundrum","tag-cannabis-conundrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}