Hed run some kind of tech firm in the 1980s, with a vaguely silly name from the more wide-eyed Silicon Valley of the past
But Robert Proctor, a historian of science at Stanford University and the author of a forthcoming blockbuster entitled Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition, argues that to use education as ones only weapon against a highly addictive and often lethal drug is unpardonably insufficient
The University of Rochester Medical Center explains that whenever tobacco is burned, whether in a pipe or a cigarette, it releases poisons and harmful toxins such as: Cyanide Lead Arsenic Carbon monoxide Nicotine Tar Smoking a hookah or water pipe isnt safe, either, according to the Mayo Clinic, because it contains tobacco thats no less harmful to your health than cigarettes
Cannabis is actually very good for nausea, notes Dr Peter Grinspoon, a medical cannabis specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, pointing to its benefits for chemotherapy patients who frequently experience side effects of sickness