The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7233 p115
25 January 2003

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Letters to the Editor

Cannabis

Claims are unfounded

From Dame Helena Shovelton

Claims in your letters pages (PJ, 30 November, p782) that the British Lung Foundation's report "A smoking gun", which was released in November is unscientific are unfounded.

The Department of Health-funded report was compiled from existing scientifically recognised research and peer reviewed in three countries.

We at the British Lung Foundation firmly believe that everyone should know the respiratory health risks involved with smoking cannabis. Research collated in our report has clearly found that cannabis is 50 per cent more carcinogenic than tobacco. However, these findings do not in any way decrease the dangers of tobacco or the public's awareness of these risks.

The deaths and illnesses from smoking are huge — partly at this stage because so many people smoked for years without knowing the dangers. We do not want the same thing to happen with cannabis users.

Helena Shovelton
Chief Executive
British Lung Foundation

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