Cannabis smoking via combustion, even without cigarette smoking [20], has been associated with respiratory symptoms, chronic bronchitis, changes in lung function testing, risk of developing COPD, worsening of asthma and COPD, bullous disease, and lung and head and neck cancer due to exposure to carcinogens [21], cardiovascular complications, allergy, and respiratory infections [22, 23]
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While some Islamic scholars consider these products to be haram, others argue that they are permissible as harm reduction tools
This matters, because it is smokingnot nicotinethat drives the overwhelming burden of disease and death attributed to tobacco use. The study has, predictably, drawn criticism