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…Tom N. My old roommate use to tell me "everyone smokes pot at some point in their life". I’ve smoked pot with a 33 year-old mother of two outside a wedding reception and with a 14 year-old girl and her father. So what is this magical drug that makes…

…related to lifestyle, heredity, and the environment in which a person lives. There are a number of factors that increase the chances of getting cancer. Many types of cancer are related to the use of tobacco (smoking), what people eat and drink, exposure…

…and many others. This drug is marijuana, also known as cannabis. Marijuana is the dried leaf of the hemp plant that gives off tetrahydocannibinol (THC). THis chemical is part of the healing combination that is acquired through smoking. Marijuana can…

…My grandmother gave up smoking to raise me when I was an infant. She quit because my mother would not allow her to see her grandchildren. Instead of quitting for me it would have made me a lot happier if she would have never started. For many years…

…My grandmother gave up smoking to raise me when I was an infant. She quit because my mother would not allow her to see her grandchildren. Instead of quitting for me it would have made me a lot happier if she would have never started. For many years she…

…politicized recently as marijuana has. It is frequently praised by one side and condemned by the other, on the basis of emotional issues rather than an objective view of research. It was 1920 when smoking began to catch on in the United States. Its recreational…

…cancer or other disease, the tobacco industry was able to overturn all lawsuits filed up until 1996. Warning labels invoked in 1965 on cigarette packaging helped companies to argue the fact that consumers knew the harmful effects associated with smoking…

…when they are small (LUSA). More studies on this type of screening will show whether routine screening of smokers and others at risk for lung cancer will save lives(LUSA). Smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer. Lung cancer is also know…

…smoke. Studies show that someone who smokes five joints per week may be taking in as many cancer-causing chemicals as someone who smokes a full pack of cigarettes every day.” While in certain places it is legally perscribed to people with many different types…

…scientists think. One says, “It's hard to know for sure whether regular marijuana use causes cancer. But it is known that marijuana contains some of the same and sometimes even more, of the cancer-causing chemicals found in tobacco smoke. Studies show…