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Does the heat of cannabis smoke damage your lungs?

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Bad_Boy_Blue

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Is it the solely the toxic constituents of cannabis smoke that damage the lining of your lungs, or is it this combined with the fact that your lungs are scorched (with certain smoking methods)?

If the heat does play a significant part in lung damage, would this mean that bongs may not be as bad as many people think (in terms of the damage caused)?
 
I don't think the heat of uncooled pot smoke is hot enough to cause any lasting damage to the lining of your lungs. In terms of moderate smoking. Smoke cooled down by a bong would cause much less damage of course.

I was once told by a "healthy lifestyles councellor" at my highschool that the first time you inhale any smoke (joint, cigarette etc) tiny hairs lining your throat and lungs are burnt and can never grow back. I can see this being true, but is the damage at all significant?
 
If you are smoking anything it's going to damage your lungs in some way or other, regardless of what it is or how hot the smoke is...
 
I honestly don't think there's any research on it. I looked for nearly an hour, and I couldn't find anything.

Its complicated. There's quite a bit of research looking at the effect of the burning temperature of tobacco and the damage it's smoke does to lungs, but of course, if you burn the tobacco hotter, you get more 'toxins'. I can't even find research looking at the temperature of normal tobacco smoke.

I strongly doubt what your "healthy lifestyles counselor" said Salphyus. If that happened, you would get emphysema after one cigarette.
 
BilZ0r said:
I strongly doubt what your "healthy lifestyles counselor" said Salphyus. If that happened, you would get emphysema after one cigarette.
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I heard that smoke (from a cigarette or joint) can temporarily immobilise the hairs in your lungs (called the cillia?).

So maybe if I want to smoke a bowl with my new brass pipe, I could leave it in a freezer overnight prior to smoking (and handle if with gloves for as short a time as is possible)?
 
hope you're freezer isn't like mine, or your brass pipe will be so icy you'll have difficulty handling it.

I would be more worried about the carcinogens and whatnot you're inhaling rather than any slight, temporary damage that may have been caused by the heat of the smoke
 
taking big rips out of glass eye drop hitters have taken a toll on my lungs a lot worse then a big rip from a bowl does so perhaps theres a possibility
 
it's possible that smoking does temporarily immobilise cillia, but from one cigarette, its not permanent.

I wouldn't be concered man. As everyone has said, the heat is going to to minimal damge compared to the particulate matter and carcinogens. Not that I'm saying they neccsarily do any damage either, just that if anything was going to do damage, its not going to be the heat.
 
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