Smoking remains the biggest cause of preventable ill-health, such as cancer, heart attacks and stroke, killing about 115,000 people a year
Other numbers are even more frightening we have to add 30 seriously ill people to every dead smoker, as least 16 million Americans have a smoking-associated disease
If the drug is not reintroduced, the altered level of signaling will eventually induce the nerve cells to once again make compensatory changes that restore an appropriate balance of activities within the brain
and Stefi Zola - and the American Jewish Archives Dr
Growing pot is not any great leap from growing tobacco, and to a large degree the same facilities and equipment could be used for processing, packaging, transporting and marketing marijuana cigarettes The nations major tobacco companies would be able to relatively easily move into the legalized cannabis industry, and if they did so we could expect to see marijuana become a major corporate product