Working from the data accumulated by the CPS-II and comparing the numbers of smoking-related deaths among smokers with the number of deaths among nonsmokers, Mokdad and colleagues (2004) calculated that smoking had been responsible for 435,000 deaths in 2000
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Cannabis is increasingly becoming legal in many regions, while certain drugs have approved medical applications but remain illegal for recreational use (such as opioids)
Longtime marijuana users do have more cancer, more lung cancer, more oral cancer, voice box cancerbut only, it seems, because they also tend to be more likely to also smoke tobacco
Ongoing research may lead to more regulations and could tell us more about the health risks of using them