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Study: Cannabis Use Does Not Increase Risk Of Lung Cancer

Monterey Bud

Marijuana.com

Wednesday 25 Jun 2014

Contracting lung cancer has long been a concern for frequent marijuana smokers. As cigarette consumption currently contributes to over 480,000 deaths annually, many within the scientific community have speculated that regular cannabis consumers could potentially face the same grisly fate as today’s cancer riddled tobacco smokers.

But a recently published study in the June 2014 edition of the International Journal of Cancer has found that assumption to be absolutely false. The new study indicates that someone’s preference to smoke marijuana in no way correlates to an increased risk of contracting lung cancer.

Providing for a broad-based group to study, scientists from New Zealand, England, Canada and the United States studied patient data collected from over 2,100 cancer patients and an additional 2,985 control cases.

Their methodology was simple; “Study-specific associations between cannabis smoking and lung cancer.”

After their exhaustive study the researchers concluded; “Results from our pooled analysis provide little evidence for an increased risk of lung cancer among habitual or long-term cannabis smokers.”

Similar to the recent research conducted by UCLA’s Dr. Donald Tashkin, who famously led the study published in the scientific journal Annals of the American Thoracic Society which discovered that while smoking pot could potentially increase the reoccurrence of bronchitis…it in no way leads to lung cancer.

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