qqwref: The first article specifically states how smoke wears out the cilia and the alveoli. Smoking food usually involves a short duration of exposure to the smoke. It's the same thing with camp fires, I love the "smell" of camp fires, and they sure do have a lot of smoke, but I don't feel it's dangerous because I'm not sitting there for hours at a time inhaling a lot of the smoke. Sit inside a smoker, it shouldn't be long until you're coughing. The point at which you're coughing is when the cilia can't do their job (according to that article, anyway).
To recap the point about alcohol is that the initial thought and reaction I had to your post was (same point) but nothing similar to what I wrote. When I write on the forums, I often read my replies quite a few times before posting. I find that I make some spelling and/or grammar errors, don't phrase things how I wanted them to be phrased, etc. In the end, my reply looks (usually) nothing like what it started out as. If for whatever reason (like about my little 'expectation' that I had) I have some sort of snide remark, it's usually toned down when posted here. If it were to be straight from my thoughts to here, I'd be permanently banned, heh. If alcohol were involved, a lot of these thoughts would come out as thoughts, instead of making things look "correct." This is because alcohol causes judgement to be lost. If this were in real life, something that bothers me in my head (as in enough to annoy me but I don't show it), if I had x amount of alcohol in me, I would display the actual annoyance instead of hold it back. People often blame this effect on "oh it's the alcohol," when in reality it's how the person really felt, they just hold it back when they're sober.
Hadley: Haven't you heard of patient confidentiality? Even if so, I can speculate that at least one person with lung or heart disease was a recreational marijuana smoker. The kicker to this is that they probably also smoked cigarettes, if this is true, the blame will be placed on the cigarettes, not the marijuana. Science is science, though. The more exposure you have to smoke (any sort), the more chance you have at wearing out your cilia and alveoli. On the other hand, this is also true if you are in extremely humid environments, or extremely dusty environments, etc. When I said "all smoke can cause," it was meant as a (supposed to be) humorous quip, I had no intention of it going past that. If you read my earlier post, I even stated that I didn't mean for the comment to negate anything you said about marijuana. Please understand this is the second time I'm telling you that it meant nothing to negate what you said. I was asked to "back up" a claim I made, and I was a bit unsettled with the fact I thought everybody learned when they were real young to cover your nose and mouth with a wet cloth if you're stuck in a house breathing smoke (until you can get outside).
