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Comparing cannabis with tobacco: Arithmetic does not add up
BMJ 2003; 327 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.327.7407.165 (Published 17 July 2003) Cite this as: BMJ 2003;327:165
- Les Iversen (les.iversen@pharm.ox.ac.uk), professor
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT
EDITOR—The editorial by Henry et al comparing cannabis with tobacco implies that in the future as many as 30 000 deaths a year in Britain may be caused by smoking cannabis.1 But this conclusion seems to have been based on a series of questionable assumptions.
To expose the lungs to the same amount of …
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