| Some people might wonder how big a difference | | | | coughing, wheezing, and excessive amounts of |
| there is in smoking tobacco as opposed to smoking | | | | phlegm. This is where the real similarities between |
| marijuana. There really is not a difference as far as | | | | smoking tobacco and smoking marijuana occur. |
| your lungs are concerned. One is probably about as | | | | Marijuana smokers will experience these same |
| bad as the other. The one big difference is the effect | | | | negative reactions in the lungs. While you might not |
| that happens to the brain. While smoking tobacco | | | | receive the same kind of high with tobacco as you do |
| products is addictive and harmful to your health, a | | | | marijuana, you will receive the same kind of lung |
| tobacco smoker does not really feel much change in | | | | damage. |
| his outlook or behavior during or after smoking. That is, | | | | Marijuana produces a euphoric feeling that is far more |
| until they can not have any tobacco when they want | | | | noticeable than with tobacco. It can make you feel |
| it. | | | | relaxed and removed from normal feelings. This is one |
| Tobacco addiction does not impair your vision or | | | | of the big attractions of smoking marijuana. Many |
| judgment in the same way that marijuana will. | | | | people love that feeling they get when they have |
| However, when a tobacco user must go longer than | | | | smoked marijuana. While some people believe that |
| they like to without a fix, so to speak, they can | | | | marijuana, like tobacco, is not really physically addictive |
| become nervous, irritable, and even depressed. This is | | | | in the same sense as other stronger drugs, those who |
| because the brain looks forward to the chemicals that | | | | use tobacco and marijuana might tell you different. |
| are released on a regular basis when a person | | | | Whether you believe that smoking tobacco or |
| smokes and when they stop smoking abruptly it can | | | | marijuana either one is physically addictive or not, they |
| cause these symptoms. This is why it is so hard for | | | | do produce physical withdrawal symptoms in a sense. |
| people to quit because after a while your body craves | | | | Even though much of the withdrawal is in the mind, it is |
| the feel good reaction smoking causes. | | | | still a very unpleasant task to try and kick either one of |
| We all know by now that smoking can cause lung | | | | these nasty habits and sometimes it is necessary to |
| cancer. Long before lung cancer has developed | | | | seek help before a user can stop using these |
| smoking can still cause breathing problems such as | | | | particular drugs. |