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The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 23 Tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs

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In the United States, each year illicit drugs lead to about 11,000 deaths, direct

government expenditures of $27 billion (1991 data), and over half a million

drug-related hospital emergency visits. In addition, nearly 900,000 people receive

drug-related rehabilitation treatment each year, and law enforcement results in more

than one million arrests.

JAMA, March 18, 1996, p. 827

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Marijuana smokers get about four times as much tar in their lungs per puff as tobacco

smokers. About one quarter of people who smoke three to four marijuana cigarettes a

day have chronic bronchitis, slightly less bronchitis than is seen in a pack-a-day

cigarette smokers.

Washington Post National Weekly Edition, December 9-15, 1996, p. 35

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"Not a single death has ever been credibly attributed directly to smoking or consuming

marijuana in the 5000 years of the plant's recorded use."

Atlantic Monthly, August 1994, p. 48 (E. Schlosser)

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"...the quarter century since large numbers of Americans began to use marijuana has

produced remarkably little laboratory or epidemiological evidence of serious health

damage done by the drug."

American Journal of Public Health, April 1997, p. 585 (Mark Kleiman)

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"Marijuana is unique among illegal drugs in its political symbolism, its safety, and its

wide use. More than 65 million Americans have tried marijuana, the use of which is

not associated with increased mortality."

NEJM, August 7, 1997, p. 435 (George Annas)

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