Tobacco is more harmful than cannabis
Gum disease was called the only harm of marijuana to health
Oleg Lischuk, N+1
American and New Zealand scientists have concluded that the only serious risk that smoking marijuana poses to health is the development of gum diseases. A report on the work is published in JAMA Psychiatry (Meier et al., Associations Between Cannabis Use and Physical Health Problems in Early Midlife. A Longitudinal Comparison of Persistent Cannabis vs Tobacco Users).
Employees of Duke University in Durham and Otago University in Dunedin with colleagues from other universities analyzed data from 1,037 New Zealanders born in Dunedin in 1972 and 1973 and up to the age of 38 years participated in the population study Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study.
Scientists were interested in the level of consumption of marijuana and tobacco by volunteers, as well as their health indicators, including general well-being, the presence of diseases of the oral cavity and respiratory tract, signs of systemic inflammation and metabolic status (waist circumference, body mass index, blood pressure, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose in the blood). They were evaluated at the ages of 26 and 38.
The observation covered the period from 18 to 38 years of age of the participants. The level of marijuana and tobacco consumption was found out at the age of 18, 21, 26, 32 and 38 years. 484 respondents smoked tobacco daily during any period of the specified period, 675 – have ever used marijuana for 20 years.
After the introduction of amendments to tobacco smoking, alcohol abuse, the frequency of brushing teeth, the initial level of health and lifestyle, it turned out that the frequency of smoking marijuana correlates with the condition of the gums. The participants who consumed more cannabis had gum health at the age of 38, on average, worse than the rest of the volunteers, and worse than they themselves at the age of 26.
No other deviations in physical condition associated with smoking marijuana, scientists failed to register. At the same time, tobacco smoking worsened all the studied indicators.
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06.06.2016