Careful, cannabis users: Bongs may create more secondhand smoke than cigarettes

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Careful, cannabis users: Bongs may create more secondhand smoke than cigarettes
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Smoking a bong creates concentrations of fine particulate matter four times greater than a cigarette or hookah, the UC Berkeley study found.

In a study sure to kill the buzz at many a party, researchers at UC Berkeley say bongs may create more secondhand smoke than tobacco cigarettes.published Wednesday on the JAMA Network, found that smoking cannabis in a bong created concentrations of fine particulate matter four times greater than concentrations observed after smoking a tobacco cigarette or hookah pipe.

According to the study, 27% of young adults believe secondhand exposure to cannabis smoke is safe, but “cannabis smoke has several hundred toxic chemicals, carcinogens, and fine particulate matter, many at higher concentrations than tobacco smoke.” California changed the country with marijuana legalization. Is it high time for the feds to catch up?

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