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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (5356)12/11/2006 8:51:44 AM
From: Gersh Avery   of 10087
 
This is a clip from a page I ran into that was linked on the Harvard page you showed to me:

This is a demonstration of what I talked about re gaps in process:

"For the first time, our investigation shows tobacco is not the only smoked substance that sets in motion the molecular events which can lead to lung cancer," said Barsky.

The analysis of respiratory tract tissue from 104 people concluded that smokers and drug users had a markedly higher incidence of six types of genetic markers associated with increased risk of lung cancer.

For example, the study found that 10.7 percent of non-smokers had evidence of basal cell hyperplasia, but that increased to 46.2 percent of cocaine smokers, 53.8 percent of tobacco smokers and 66.7 percent of marijuana smokers.

Among smokers of both marijuana and tobacco, there was a 100 percent incidence of basal cell hyperplasia, the study found.

"This is the first work to demonstrate that smokers of marijuana and crack cocaine have an increased frequency of molecular abnormalities in bronchial epithelium (tissue) that are similar to those identified in cigarette smokers," said an editorial in the NCI Journal.

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Again .. no dead bodies. No cancers listed. Just "markers" they assume lead to cancer in pot smokers. As for the crack smokers in the study??? Who knows WtF they would do to themselves.

These folks found that 100% of people that smoke both pot and tobacco have this "basal cell hyperplasia." That would tend to suggest that 100% of persons smoking both pot and tobacco get lung cancer ..

It don't happen that way .. period. If it did everyone that smoked pot would be dead. You would have won the discussion already.

Here is the page I got that from:

marijuananews.com
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