Is There A Link Between Smoking Pot and Testcular Cancer?

2009.05.03

 It has been long known that smoking tobacco has been the cause of various forms of cancer, but it was not known previous to the articles and findings recently published, that marijuana causes testicular cancer.

 You can now look it up on the internet that, according to The Independent Health and Well-being study, that scientists have determined that smoking cannabis or marijuana has more than doubled the risk of testicular cancer. Smoking tobacco has been proven to constrict the air passage to the lungs, and thereby, it causes the airflow problems that lead to lung cancer. Although lung cancer is not, and has not been associated with smoking marijuana, it has now been definitively linked to causing testicular cancer.

 The reason, it is reported, is that the tar in joints, or spiffs, or whatever you call them, is far heavier than cigarettes, and has been proven to cause a strain of cancer callednon-serminona, and it has been proven that it is not related to a family history of cancer or drinking, or smoking either. In fact, a study revealed that there is a seventy per cent greater risk of testicular cancer among men who smoke marijuana regularly. Smokers, the study goes on to say, had twice the risk of those who had never used the drug.

 Studies like these are now emerging that dispels the weed smoking myth that says that marijuana is very harmless, and poses no risk whatsoever to people who smoke. At one time, there was a movement not just to legalize marijuana, but also to push it as a viable alternative to tobacco. Studies are encouraging heavy pot smokers to get a thorough check out from their Doctor.

 There is an article that states that the rate of testicular cancer is soaring in the U.K., and it is the kind of article that is making people sit up and take notice – these are the people who believed that marijuana was harmless and could do no damage, and they are the ones who are now getting a wake up call.

Articles and studies were prominent that said that marijuana doesn’t cause cancer, period, but those articles were focusing mainly on lung cancer. The focus on lung cancer is the most obvious place to look because it is tobacco smoke that constricts the pipes leading to the lungs, restricting the blood flow activity in the lungs, but these findings concentrated mainly on the effects of tobacco, and found no harm caused by hash, but now, the focus has changed to testicular cancer and it is a cause for alarm in regular marijuana smokers, particularly in younger men who thought they were safe.

 In the new light of these studies done on the rate of testicular cancer in regular marijuana smokers, it would be advisable to reconsider the attitudes that prevailed before, so that if you smoke marijuana regularly, your Doctor really should check you out.