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[whimsicalism]

cutting out smoking and alcohol and subbing in vapes and marijuana is almost certainly a net win healthwise

[dclowd9901 → whimsicalism]

Unless it isn’t. Frankly we don’t know what the long term effects of vaping and marijuana usage are because we’ve not really dug into them.

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there are a fair number of long term studies in marijuana.

it’s clear that for normal usage patterns compared to normal tobacco usage patterns, the cancer risk is much lower.

[dclowd9901 → whimsicalism]

How about compared to alcohol? Various kinds of alcohol? The claim was that vaping and marijuana were both lower risk than smoking and alcohol. I think jury is still out.

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Marijuana consumption is well-studied to be less bad than alcohol. Vaping we have strong reasons to think is less bad, but it is not well studied.