| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 23 Tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs |
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| In a study of 65,000 patients from Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Oakland, California, |
| marijuana use was not associated with any change in total mortality in women. In men, |
| there was an increase in total mortality that was explained by the strong relationship |
| between marijuana use and AIDS mortality; marijuana use was not associated with |
| non-AIDS mortality in men. |
| American Journal of Public Health, April 1997, pp.585-590 |
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| In a survey from Austria, more than 90% of former heroin addicts were smokers |
| already prior to opiate dependence. |
| Abstract PO56, 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, 1997 |
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| 40 times as many Americans die from tobacco as from the use of all illegal drugs |
| combined. |
| World Watch, July-August 1997, p. 23 |
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| In his ABC radio program on January 15, 1998, Dr. Dean Edell stated that if he had to |
| choose between being addicted to alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, or heroin, |
| he would choose heroin as the least harmful to his health of this group. (This assumed |
| that the supply was pure and was available legally without having to resort to crime to |
| obtain.) |
| ABC radio program on January 15, 1998, Dr. Dean Edell |
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| Smoking marijuana increases the heart rate by 40 beats per minute, and causes an |
| increase in blood pressure when recumbent. A middle-aged person's risk of a heart |
| attack increases nearly five-fold in the first hour after smoking marijuana. |
| New York Times, March 3, 2000 (from American Heart Association conference in |
| San Diego) |
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