Out of these, which is the worse for your health? Alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana.?
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Alcohol ~ Causes liver damage brain damage and a number of other ailments.  Also is one of the easily addictive substances in the world. \n\nCigarettes ~ Causes lung cancer and a number of other ailments but is easier to quit than alcohol.  Alot of over the counter gums patches etc to help you quit.\n\nMarijuana ~ Not addictive and just makes you stupid, but wont kill you. Also just makes you paranoid and really hungry and thirsty.  The snacks and soda will kill you before the THC in marijuana will ...  THC really wont kill you.
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I would say Cancer. It would seem worse to know you're dying and your body is slowly deteriorating.\n\nMy dad passed away with cancer of the liver. he lasted 5 months from diagnosis.
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I will start off by stating that I think smoking is definitely a health risk, but so is alcohol consumption and many foods and chemicals. However, to state that you don't like people who smoke or that smoking is "gay" is ignorant! Smoking is NOT the number one cause of death nor is second hand smoke. Heart attacks and strokes account for the most number of deaths per year. The risks of drinking alcohol are just as high if not higher than smoking. Drinking causes the loss of brain cells, enlargement of the heart, liver failure, accidents, damage to kidneys etc. Alcohol is also very obnoxious smelling!! I would rather smell the slight scent of tobacco on a person than the scent of alcohol seeping out of a drinkers pores and from their breath. I just answered a question about people who litter with their cigarette butts and I will paste part of my response to that question........\n\nPeople want to believe that smoking and second hand smoke are the only causes of lung cancer, but researchers have NO way of proving that people who have never smoked developed lung cancer from second hand smoke. When they do their so called tests, they use HIGHLY concentrated amounts of cigarette smoke to try and prove their case. They know that the factories and vehicles spew out the same and worse toxins, in far larger quantities, than a cigarette, but because of the expense of forcing those two things to be made safer, they choose to ignore them for the most part and concentrate on a relatively small part of the population. Plus they can pass bills to outrageously raise taxes on cigarettes to help generate money whenever they need more money. I haven't seen them raising taxes on ALL alcohol to help generate more money, even though hundreds of people die due to drunk drivers each year. I don't see them banning alcohol in all public places to help reduce the amount of deaths caused by drunk drivers. More people die (proven) each year as the result of drunk drivers than by smokers. They don't try to pass a bill that will raise the taxes on alcohol because there are MORE drinkers in this country than smokers and the bill would never pass, so they target a smaller group (cigarette smokers) and create almost mass hysteria about second hand smoke, so that non smokers will pass through the bill. Smokers are discriminated against all the time. They are even considered a bad risk by employers because researchers claim that smokers will be out sick more often than a non smoker. Drinkers miss more work due to illness, being drunk and to hangovers than smokers miss each year. Drinkers can also cause more work related accidents by going into work drunk or with a hangover.Yes, cigarette smoking can cause cancer,but so can many foods, environmental things and chemicals, but they don't place outrageous taxes on them. The people paid to do the research on cigarette smoking and second hand smoke are paid (subsidized) by the government to bring in the right statistics. They keep trying, using more and more concentrated smoke, until they arrive at the statistic that is wanted. It is no different than when they feed rats more of something than a human could consume in a lifetime and when the rat finally shows signs of cancer or any other disease, they claim it to be a health risk to humans. The majority of smokers do NOT develop lung cancer and the majority of people who live with smokers do NOT develop lung cancer. Statistics can be manipulated to prove whatever people want them to prove. Our government is not above manipulating facts and statistics to get what they want! With cigarette smokers they have found a minority group that they can tax to produce more revenue. By making non smokers see them as lepers, they have guaranteed that any new tax will pass. So when I see people carrying on about cigarettes , I feel the need to get on my soapbox and speak out. People need to realize that today the smokers are the target, but since it wor
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eeeeeeew!!!! smoking is the worst thing...i'm sure many girls hate it (but one of my friends think it's appealing---can't understand what's up with her). smoking is really bad for you and you'll get bad teeth, lung cancer, etc. don't do it for an image...don't do it all. Everytime i'm near someone or i walk past someone smoking and i get secondhand smoke (yuck!) i turn to my friends and we joke saying we just lost 11 seconds of our lives.
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alcohol is a drug, smoking is a drug....it depends on the doses you put in your body to see which damaging effect is worse...plus they target different areas of your body : alcohol the liver, smoking the lungs - plus it'd depend on which tissue is able to withstand more of the drug...you can't outright assume one affects your body in a more detrimental way than the other...
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Drunks get in their car and kill whole families.\n\nStoners get in the fridge and eat all the cookies. \n\nI'm going to go with Alcohol is worst.
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I wonder if the people that say marijuana is so terrible have ever tried it before.  It's by FAR better than alcohol, alcohol turns people mean, makes them puke, and get's them into strangers beds, When have you ever seen a high person doing any of the above???....Exactly!
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1 word, money. They dont care about the public's health as long as they have the money. It does actually cause danger to the public who dont smoke, second hand smoke is a killer!
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As you probably know, I would choose to legalize POT. I see no harm in smoking one after work instead of drinking one. What the fuck why is pot so wrong and alcohol so right?
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Marijuana is constantly in the news and more and more scientific evidence is pointing towards its use causing serious and permanent psychologically damage.\n\nOk!\n\nHow many people die from smoking cigarettes or from drinking themselves to death or other when these idiots try and drive etc?\n\nExcellent question!  \n\nAll three have very, very detrimental effects on our health and the health of others around us and it seems insane to 'point the finger' only at marijuana.\n\nAt the end of the day its your informed choice.\n\nRespect other, but do as you please!
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sure there are....\nLet's see... you can get either Lung cancer, Cancer of the Mouth, Cancer of the Larynx, Cancer of the Esophagus, Cancer of the Bladder, Cancer of the Pancreas, Cancer of the Reproductive Systems (and if your a guy... you'll have a slight chance of becoming impetent) and/or other cancers and all you have to pay is probably over $2500 for the increasing rate in which cigarettes/cigars are sold!\nAND if that isnt enough for you, let's add to the fact that smoking can increase your risk of getting coronary heart diseases, emhphysema, chronic bronchitis, acute myeloid leukemia, arteriosclerosis, stroke, and/or other diseases. \nALSO, a decade of your life will be wasted and your body will be in poor health by the time you reach the 40s (assuming you're not already there) because smoking also affects your cardiovascular and respiratory systems.\nPHYSICAL effects of smoking can cause your skin to wrinkle faster than nonsmokers, bad breath, yellowing teeth, and etc. \nThe person above me pretty much described smoking during pregnancy and secondhand smoke so I'm not going to go there...\nSO... my answer would be "yeah... you get tons of shit and all your doing is throwing your life away"\n\nplease note that my answer is sarcastic (for those slow people out there...) but the facts are facts... they're true!\n\nP.S.- Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death out there... and yet it kills more people than suicide, homocide, car accidents, AIDS, alcohol, and illegal drugs COMBINED. Keep that in mind...
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Alcohol. Because equals to Families destroyed, Abused Children, accidents,economic bankrupcy, Pregnancies (yes, you read well), Suicides, Women Battered, and self death.\n\nCigarettes, what you see is what you get. Nobody is fooling you "this is good and inofensive. "\nEverybody knows that nicotine kills you. So if you want to get killed, go on.
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Alcohol if more toxic, addictive and destructive.  Have you ever heard of marijuana poisoning, marijuanaism, marijuana abuse, and Fetal Marijuana Syndrome in children?  I've also never heard or seen someone crash from driving high.  I have seen people crash and die from being drunk, have alcohol poisoning leading to ER trips, death from alcohol abuse (poisoning).  AA is specifically made for alcholics.  Marijuana takes the edge off all the people I've seen take it and makes them less aggressive.  I've never seen a violent person from marijuana, but have seen people arrested from violence due to alcohol as well as seen family and friends turn blue from the alcohol.\n\nEurope manages this well in respects to alcohol.  They teach their kids to drink very early and teach them to moderate their consumption thus it becomes less of a problem when the children grow up and arent so concerned about getting trashed.  We need to take the novelty away from the children at an early age so it becomes less exciting in their teen age years.  Marijuana is less of an issue than is smoking and drinking.  Marijuana should be legalized and sold by the govt to reduce drug trafficking concerns.  Thus the govt makes money and wins the war on drugs (in terms of Mary-J) all at once.
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because beer is acceptable to society and cigarettes are not. both are equally bad for the body. and minus the smell smokers are a whole lot better to hang out with, well as aposed to drunks. try video taping a drunk person and show it to them later not a pretty show.
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If you drink too much Alcohol, you become labeled an Alcoholic. But that doesn't affect me unless you get behind the wheel of a car...\n\nAs for Cigarettes, they just make you stink,(especially when I have to walk through it on my way into the mall, grocery store, drug store, etc...) and the smoke then pollutes the air, my lungs, my friends lungs, family, pets, etc... Who cares about what the smoker is doing to themselves!\n\nSo, I'd have to say they both rank as the same evils in my book.
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Anything you smoke can affect your lungs. Marijuana like most things can either be used or abused, like food for example. Its incredible to me that people will criticize pot, but not alcohol and tobacco, both of which are vastly evidenced as far more harmful than pot.  But regarding your health, pot may help you relax, loosen up, have fun, etc., but the problem is when you began to crave it, need it, and develop addiction. Just be aware!
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I think it is something that needs to be done.  We have all sorts of highly addictive and dangerous drugs that are legal-vicodin, percoset, oxycotin....It may take longer for it to be legalized for recreational use, but is it really any worse than alcohol?  I know of MANY more lives ruined by alcohol than marijuana.