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What Has a Greater Effect on Your Physical Health Marijuana or Cigarettes?

Cigarettes kill about 5,400,000 a year. There has never been one single death directly related to smoking marijuana in recorded history. Not to say that smoking pot dose not have an effect on you physical health it just hasn't killed anyone.

Smoking weed can increase your heart beat by 20 to 50 beats per minute also increase risk of heat attack for an hour or two after it has been smoked. Marijuana can also increase risk of lung infection and more frequent chest illnesses. One of reasons for marijuana effecting your lungs is because pot smokers inhale so deeply and hold in the smoke to get the highest effect from the THC.

Smoking cigarettes can cause mouth, throat, and lung cancer. The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels. Tar from the cigarettes coats your lungs. Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.

My conclusion is that smoking cigarettes is much more harmful and deadly than marijuana and has the greater effect on your physical health.