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by mal-2 1026 days ago
I had always heard that part of the problem with tobacco smoke is that it's radioactive. Whereas marijuana smoke isn't. So it's still smoke but not nearly as carcinogenic?
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You should not believe everything you read.

If tobbaco smoke was radioactive then the cigarettes would have been radioactive (you don't make a material radioactive just by setting it on fire) and would have caused a health hazard for stores employees.

This is well-established in peer reviewed research, it's not just something I read.