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Kyle Jaeger
People increasingly view smoking marijuana or being exposed to secondhand
cannabis smoke as safer than smoking or being near tobacco smoke, according to a
new study published by the American Medical Association (AMA).
Researchers surveyed 5,035 U.S. adults three times—in 2017, 2020 and 2021—about
how they perceive the risks of both substances, and they found a “significant
shift” over time as more people expressed that they felt cannabis smoke was
generally safer than tobacco smoke.
The survey—results of which were published in the Journal of the American
Medical Association (JAMA) Substance Use and Addiction on Friday—asked people
whether they felt smoking one marijuana joint per day was much less safe,
somewhat less safe, just as safe, somewhat safer or much safer than smoking one
cigarette per day.
“Daily cannabis smoking or smoke exposure was perceived to be safer than
tobacco,” the authors wrote. And over time, “views increasingly favored the
safety of cannabis vs tobacco smoke.”
> “Regarding the safety of daily smoking of cannabis vs tobacco, there was a
> significant shift from 2017 to 2021 toward a more favorable perception of
> cannabis.”
For example, in 2017, 33.7 percent of respondents said that smoking marijuana
once a day was either much or somewhat more dangerous than smoking a daily
cigarette, compared to 36.6 percent who said cannabis was safer. About 30
percent said they carried equal risks.
By 2021, just 25.5 percent still believed that smoking cannabis was more
dangerous than smoking tobacco, while 44.3 percent said marijuana was safer than
cigarettes—a 21 percent increase from four years earlier.
Similar trends were observed when respondents were asked about the relative
dangers of being exposed to secondhand cannabis and cigarette smoke.
In 2017, 29.2 percent of people said that secondhand marijuana smoke was more
dangerous than cigarette smoke exposure, whereas 35.1 percent said that the
opposite was true. Another 35.6 percent said that neither was safer nor more
dangerous.
Four years later, in 2021, 25.5 percent said that secondhand cannabis smoke was
worse than tobacco smoke, and 40.1 percent said that exposure to marijuana was
safer than being around cigarette smoke.
> There was “a significant shift toward a more favorable view of cannabis from
> 2017 to 2021.”
The survey also asked people to rate the relative safety of secondhand marijuana
and tobacco smoke for different groups.
For adults, 12.6 percent said cannabis was somewhat or completely safe, versus
2.4 percent who said the same about tobacco. For children, 4.8 percent said
secondhand cannabis smoke was completely or somewhat safe, compared to 1.8
percent for tobacco. And 5.3 percent said that exposure to marijuana smoke was
generally safe for pregnant women, while 1.4 percent said that was true of
cigarettes.
“US adults have a more favorable view of the safety of primary and secondhand
cannabis smoke exposure than tobacco smoke exposure,” the paper says.
Notably, the “legality of cannabis in the participants’ state of residence was
not independently associated with change over time,” the authors wrote. “This
suggests that the increasing perception of safety of cannabis may be a larger,
national trend rather than a trend seen only in states with cannabis
legalization.”
That finding seems to partly contradict a part of the paper’s concluding
discussion where the authors predict that as more states enact legalization,
“risk perception may decrease further, which may be associated with increased
consumption of cannabis and exposure to secondhand cannabis smoke.”
> “The perceived relative safety of cannabis smoke increased over time.”
The authors appear concerned about the change in attitudes towards marijuana’s
relative safety, saying that “public health efforts may be necessary to educate
the public on potential risks and curb the increasing social acceptance of
cannabis smoke exposure, similar to past education about secondhand tobacco
smoke.”
The release of the new study comes days after Gallup came out with a new poll
showing that fully half of Americans have tried marijuana—and more people now
actively smoke cannabis than tobacco cigarettes. Additionally, a majority say
they are not especially concerned about the effects of adults regularly using
marijuana.
Meanwhile, a poll released by the American Psychiatric Association in June found
that Americans consider marijuana to be significantly less dangerous than
cigarettes, alcohol and opioids—and they say cannabis is less addictive than
each of those substances, as well as technology.
Last year, a survey also showed that Americans believe that cannabis is less
dangerous than alcohol or tobacco. And a separate poll released last year found
that more Americans now openly admit that they smoke marijuana or eat
cannabis-infused edibles than say they’ve smoked cigarettes in the past week.
Also, a study published in May found that state-level legalization is associated
with a “small, occasionally significant longer-run declines in adult tobacco
use.”
> NAACP Renews Support For Marijuana Legalization With New Call To Protect
> Cannabis Industry Workers’ Rights
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