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Socially and environmentally, peer and family pressure, along with the influence of social norms and media portrayals, contribute to the prevalence of tobacco use

So not only does marijuana deposit more tar than tobacco but it actually has even worse substances

The Federalists had a difficult job to sell the Constitution, but their wisdom eventually won the day

But the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention couldnt rule out harms caused by other chemicals, and there havent been other cases of similar injuries since then

The Problems of Arsenic in American Cigarette Tobacco. New England Journal of Medicine 254 (1956): 1149-54

It contains thousands of chemicals and produces over 7,000 chemical compounds when burned, many of which are carcinogenic, cause heart and other diseases, and premature death