Smoking Marijuana tied to testicular cancer (2x risk)

Reuters/Yahoo ^

[GeronL]

Reuters) - Young men who had smoked marijuana recreationally were twice as likely to be diagnosed with testicular cancer than men who have never used marijuana, according to a U.S. study. .....

"This is the third study consistently demonstrating a greater than doubling of risk of this particularly undesirable subtype of testicular cancer among young men with marijuana use," said Victoria Cortessis of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, who led the study.

[jonascord]

I'm still tryiing to see a down side to this.

A mental defective doesn't like reality. He MAKES A CHOICE. He spends all his time stoned. He contracts a cancer that gelds him or kills him, removing his commiecrat ass from the gene pool.

Win/win for the rest of us. (Bad news for Cheetos sales tho...)

[Gertie]

Really? How much of it did you smoke?

[svcw]

Interesting that it appears you are saying people who use cannibals are mentally defective and you will be happy if they die from cancer.
And you really think they are the defective ones.

[GraceG]

Ok, well just legalize it and the problem will eventually take care of itself.....

Or offer free pre-emptive “surgery” for pot smokers, win-win.

[righttackle44]

Oh, you’ve check his testicles?

[JustSayNoToNannies]

This is medicine?

Many medicines have harmful side effects - should we ban them all?

[snowstorm12]

•The adverse health effects from cigarette smoking account for an estimated 443,000 deaths, or nearly one of every five deaths, each year in the United States.

•More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined.

•Smoking causes an estimated 90% of all lung cancer deaths in men and 80% of all lung cancer deaths in women.1
•An estimated 90% of all deaths from chronic obstructive lung disease are caused by smoking.1

Smoking and Increased Health Risks

Compared with nonsmokers, smoking is estimated to increase the risk of—

•coronary heart disease by 2 to 4 times
•stroke by 2 to 4 times
•men developing lung cancer by 23 times
•women developing lung cancer by 13 times
•dying from chronic obstructive lung diseases (such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema) by 12 to 13 times.

Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease
•Smoking causes coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
•Cigarette smoking causes reduced circulation by narrowing the blood vessels (arteries) and puts smokers at risk of developing peripheral vascular disease (i.e., obstruction of the large arteries in the arms and legs that can cause a range of problems from pain to tissue loss or gangrene).1,7
•Smoking causes abdominal aortic aneurysm (i.e., a swelling or weakening of the main artery of the body—the aorta—where it runs through the abdomen).

Smoking and Respiratory Disease
•Smoking causes lung cancer.
•Smoking causes lung diseases (e.g., emphysema, bronchitis, chronic airway obstruction) by damaging the airways and alveoli (i.e., small air sacs) of the lungs.

Smoking and Cancer

Smoking causes the following cancers:
•Acute myeloid leukemia
•Bladder cancer
•Cancer of the cervix
•Cancer of the esophagus
•Kidney cancer
•Cancer of the larynx (voice box)
•Lung cancer
•Cancer of the oral cavity (mouth)
•Pancreatic cancer
•Cancer of the pharynx (throat)
•Stomach cancer

Smoking and Other Health Effects

Smoking has many adverse reproductive and early childhood effects, including increased risk for—
•infertility,
•preterm delivery,
•stillbirth,
•low birth weight, and
•sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).1,8

Smoking is associated with the following adverse health effects:
•Postmenopausal women who smoke have lower bone density than women who never smoked.
•Women who smoke have an increased risk for hip fracture than women who never smoked.

[tacticalogic]

Researching "Causes of testicular cancer" yields:

Scientists have found a few risk factors that make a man more likely to get testicular cancer. Even if a man has one or more risk factors for this disease, there's no way to know for sure what part those factors played in causing the cancer. Also, most men with testicular cancer do not have any of the known risk factors. Research in this area is going on.

[editor-surveyor]

I know two individuals that cured their testicular cancer with THC, in less than a week for one of them.

This article is just more BS from the Medical Mafia.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Also, most men with testicular cancer do not have any of the known risk factors.” <<

.
This can be said for most cancers. “Risk factors” are in the bank account of the researcher in all liklihood.

[tacticalogic]

This can be said for most cancers. “Risk factors” are in the bank account of the researcher in all liklihood.

They'll tell you "it doubles your risk", but nary a word about what that risk factor was to start with.

[Tuanedge]

First it was because marijuana would make your white daughters run off with black jazz musicians.

Then it was marijuana made you psychotic.

Then they claimed marijuana makes you sterile.

Then, another US study said marijuana killed your brain cells. And the US government sprayed paraquat on Mexican pot fields to make sure that study came true.

And after that they tried to make men believe that smoking pot would make them grow female breasts.

And now, in addition to tits, our balls are all supposed to be dropping off.

Frankly, these lying POS are boring the flock out of me.

[jonascord]

I will be OVERJOYED WHEN THEY DIE! Anyone who cannot handle reality without chemical help IS DEFECTIVE.

As a example, I offer any Commiecrat. It spares us the cost of shooting them during CW2, something you might ponder, the next time you're one toke over the line.

I think drugs should be legalized, simply as a eugenic marker, to add some bleach to the gene pool. Stoners, tweakers, heroin addicts, drunks, can kill themselves quickly and cheaply, without society having to pay exorbitant money trying to either "cure" them or keep them behind bars.

We might lose the occasional Coleridge, but considering that my third bike in 7 months vanished to the tweakers, last night, and that, here in Oregon, C-4 mantraps are still, regrettably, illegal, I can stand to drop some users off of a high place, to see if they bounce.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

I think drugs should be legalized, simply as a eugenic marker, [...] my third bike in 7 months vanished to the tweakers, last night

Sorry to hear that. Since the drug war hyperinflates drug prices, thus incentivizing theft, legalization would help you hang on to bikes too.

[svcw]

You clearly are insane.

[tacticalogic]

We might lose the occasional Coleridge

And the occasional Satchmo.

[svcw]

So you are putting all people who use cannabis into a category of mentally defective and should die because you don’t know how to lock up your bike.
Really and you think they are defective.

[jonascord]

Cold logic frightens you, doesn't it? That's the difference between we Adults and children.

You wanna do anything you want to. In what way does getting stoned, or buzzed or drunk benefit? You're useless for any practical purpose until your overworked liver flushes out your bloodstream.

Until then, someone can walk up and put a bullet in your eye, and you'll sit there with a goofy grin while he does it...

Back in the Old Corps, a lot of stoners and boozers got themselves and others killed in 'Da 'Nam. Used up all my sympathy for people who want to inflict their chemical dependencies on me.

And I'm insane? Yeah, sure, Unh Huh...

[svcw]

I was correct you are insane.

[svcw]

Your ignorance of cannabis use is staggering, all based on your inability to lock your bike.