On May 15, 11:29 am, Greg Goss <go...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Opus the Penguin <opusthepenguin+use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >I just saw one of those fun facts that says there are 430,000 deaths
> >each year due to nicotine, none "attributable" to marijuana. But
> >wouldn't smoking pot have the same conraindications as tobacco? Or is
> >it smoked in sufficiently smaller quantities that emphysema and other
> >complications are unlikely to result? If so, would this change if
> >marijuana were legalized.
>
> Some of the weed advocates claim that either nicotine or one of the
> other chemicals in tobacco "turns off" the cilia that move debris from
> deep within the lungs to the larger passageways where it can be
> coughed out.
>
I was taught in health class that nicotine stopped the beating of the
cilia, and eventually killed 'em off. Drug education in my school
system was generally unhysterical and fact-based, so I tend to think
this was probably accurate, or at least the best medical knowledge of
the time.
Says nothing as to what reefer does to cilia, of course.
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