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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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