White House Ad Encourages Teen Use of Addictive, Cancer-Causing Drug

[SHRED]

What the hell are they doing?
A terrible message from a terrible administration.
Repugs are dangerous.
Is this part of thier "culture of life"?

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White House Ad Encourages Teen Use of
Addictive, Cancer-Causing Drug
New Campaign Directly Contradicts Data on Tobacco, Marijuana

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A new White House ad campaign encourages teen cigarette use by falsely telling parents that tobacco is far less dangerous to kids than marijuana, officials of the Marijuana Policy Project charged today. "By inaccurately portraying cigarettes as relatively harmless, the White House is condemning thousands of young people to a life of addiction and early death from cancer and emphysema," said MPP Director of Government Relations Steve Fox.

The new ad, which started running this week in papers such as USA Today and The New York Times, claims, "Quite a few people think that smoking pot is less likely to cause cancer than a regular cigarette. You may even have heard some parents say they'd rather their kid smoked a little pot than get hooked on cigarettes. Wrong, and wrong again. ... One joint can deliver four times as much cancer-causing tar as one cigarette."

But the ad's claim is directly contradicted by extensive research, including the 1999 White House-commissioned Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base." While marijuana smoke does contain tars, the IOM concluded, "There is no conclusive evidence that marijuana causes cancer in humans, including cancers usually related to tobacco use." While multiple studies have confirmed that tobacco smokers have far higher lung cancer rates than nonsmokers, no such correlation has been clearly documented among marijuana smokers who don't use cigarettes. In a 60,000-patient, 10-year study, marijuana smokers who didn't smoke cigarettes actually had a lower lung cancer rate than nonsmokers.

The IOM noted that marijuana smokers generally smoke far less than tobacco smokers, and considerable research has now confirmed that marijuana's active components, called cannabinoids, stop cancer cell growth. Copies of studies related to marijuana, tobacco, and cancer are available from MPP Director of Communications Bruce Mirken.

MORE>>> http://www.mpp.org/releases/nr20050414.html

[katusha]

1. is this bush's plan to save SS? n/t

[AmyDeLune]

2. You Betch'a!!!

Hook'em early, get their money for TobaccoCo. and insure that they'll die of smoking related diseases before they can collect! And just to make sure, none of them will be able to afford life saving health care. :smoke:

[Initech]

3. And people say our government doesnt produce propaganda...

Ha ha ha...

Anyone remember that ad from the Super Bowl a couple years ago that linked pot smoking to 9/11?

[emanymton]

4. Iraq Has WMD. Never Let The Lack Of Facts Stop Your Message

[mistertrickster]

6. Hehe . . . my thoughts exactly. No reason to let medical science stand

in the way of your preconceived bias.

The Republican way--draw the conclusion you want and put the "facts" into a Procustean bed to make them "fit."

[bejammin075]

5. One joint is a lot!

Nobody smokes joints like cigarettes! It would be impossible to smoke 30 joints a day like people can smoke 30 cigarettes a day (20 per pack, so 30 = 1 1/2 packs). Furthermore, since weed is stronger these days than in days past, even 1 joint is a lot. If you smoked 1 quarter joint a day, how does that compare to getting hooked on cigarettes?

The bottome line here is that tobacco companies make lots of campaign contributions.

[freebrew]

8. It's not stronger..

just another gov't ploy to make the people think it shouldn't be legal.

Hey, I've been lurking for a while, but the pot thing is infuriating.
I had to rant.

And Now,
Back to the shadows...

[newyawker99]

12. Hi freebrew!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Nikia]

13. I think that one joint is a lot

I think that is the most that I've ever smoked in a day, over several hours. I know a few "pot heads" who stay high all day. They have smoked maybe 3-4 joints per day. Maybe some harder core stoners or med pot users smoke twice that much. Even with the formula, 1 joint= 4 cigarettes, very few pot smokers approach the typical tobacco addicts cigarette intake.

[Union Thug]

21. I'm a daily user and it takes 4 average bong hits and I'm good

Of course, I only smoke at night, and when I am feeling patient, I break out the vaporizer and the high is extremely clean.

[mistertrickster]

7. I love the part about cannibinoids stop cancer cell growth. Hey, Grandpa,

don't bogart that reefer . . . pass it around, dude.

[UCLA Dem]

9. At least pot isn't addictive like nicotine. They never cease to disgust me

[toymachines]

10. just more anti-herb bullshit

there was a great drugwar rant on the greatest page yesterday. probably still there. i smoke legally, cause the phd recommend to use it medicinally. stopping cancer as i type, thats multi-tasking.

[Montauk6]

11. Well... Consoviets love turning the clock back...

Next thing you know, they'll have (courtesy of the fine folks over at Big Tobacco) the kiddies chanting/singing...

Taste me, taste me...

Smoke ahhhhhh Lucky (to feel your level best)...

You've come a long way, baby, to get where you got today...

LSMFT=Lucky Strike Means FINE Tobacco...

[jayctravis]

14. Don't most cigarettes have tar *added* to them?

To keep the leaf moist and slow down the burn?

I've smoked Winston and American Spirits which allegedly have fewer additives and they're very *dry*.

[Dez]

15. Cannabis is medicine.

Someday it will be legalized .. meantime, it's war time! Amerika has an obsession with wars .. no wonder the world hates the U.S!

[TheGriz]

16. Bullshit!

No no, not your post. The show!

I can't start my own thread yet but I wanted to post this anyway.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-3653114296815352489

[Turtlebah]

17. Thanks for posting that!

I watched that on pot tv before, great!

[angry_chuck]

20. I watched that too

Great stuff. The sad thing is how many people know the truth but are confused as to the remedy. It is like that guy at the end says, "I have been using medical marijuana for 20 years and the feds still don't want to know how well it works." That says it all right there. Plus that guy weiner, what a deustch.

[bamacrat]

18. Weed stops cancer? Great, why arent they handing it out for free?

Man this is one screwed up society, `maybe itll change some day

[angry_chuck]

19. i read that a lot of shit they don't want you to know

stops cancer. The different things are natural and so cannot be patented by money grubbing pharmaceutical companies.

Check it out..Google Vitamin B-17.

Fascist gov pukes. Anything to make a buck

[bamacrat]

22. Tax money from weed and saved War on Drugs money could save Soc. Sec.