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Is it hypocritical to discourage people from smoking tobacco...?

but encourage them to smoke herb?
All health factors aside...
I know many of us believe (& maybe rightly so), that marijuana does less damage than tobacco...but let's just say we're wrong (we may be)..
But that aside, I feel that since mj has all sorts of benefits & actually has a purpose, so people should smoke it..but i think tobacco smoking is just pointless because it doesn't give you any real benefits (except that 10 min buzz)...& gets you hooked.
Is this hypocritical in your opinion??
lol
(ps. i just want to see what everyone has to say...whether or not you think it is doesn't change my opinion..lol, i have my reasons ;)

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I don't think it's hypocritical if you warn them that smoking in itself is bad, but if they wish to, then marijuana makes a lot more sense. It's not physically addictive like cigarettes that have nicotine, or coffee with caffeine. That's the only ill effect that's absent. Smoking does the same damage, but since weed's non addictive and genuinely beneficial for certain problems it's a much healthier choice and one you're unlikely to take even half as often. It of course depends on whether the person is capable of making intelligent decisions based on knowledge and personal opinions rather than on peer pressure or external influences. Secondly, the person should not be weak minded, or the kind who can get addicted to a video game, the TV or jerking off. If someone's vulnerable to psychological dependence then weed's gonna take over their life cause it's the best naturally induced experience possible and a weak minded person is incapable of retaining control in the face of habituated behavior that is pleasant.
I don't agree that people 'should smoke' it, but I do feel that people who smoke cigarettes and frown upon marijuana are pretty stupid.

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• not what so ever. cannabis and tobacco are far to different from each other.
  
  its like say meth and mdma are both on the same playing field
  
  . btw tobacco has polonium 210 (highly radioactive)which is 250,000 time more toxic then hydrogen cyanide (Zyklon B)
• i think you have to dicourage any smoke going into others body
• Smoke bud :D
• Tobacco has been around for awhile and so have the risks. If someone smokes chances are the already know the risks and the last thing they want is someone calling them out on it.
  
  For alot of people smoking a cigarette is the most pleasent expirence they have all day and if you say anything about it you will not change anything but mabe get them a little agitated.
  
  For the guy that said smoke bud Im not against it but weed has over three time the tar in it for a weight ratio to tobacco. And you dont try to hold cigarette smoke in as long as you can or suck it down as deep either so do some research and make the call yourself.
  
  Weed is not as addictive as tobacco nor do you smoke the same amount of bud as you would tobacco if your hooked.