[ExI] Tobacco thread

Keith Henson hkeithhenson at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 14:04:19 UTC 2009


Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote

>2009/11/28 Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>:
>> Google cilia tobacco cannabis
>
>> Nicotine tends to have more adverse effects on the cilia than THC.

>It's neither nicotine nor THC that cause most of the adverse health
>effects: it's the hundreds of other chemicals in the smoke.

Right, but nicotine seem to inhibit cilia clearing the smoke particles
from the lungs more than THC.  THC may even have the opposite effect.

Not that smoke of any type is good for you.

Keith



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