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Robert Olvera, former medical director of Bristol Park Medical Groups family clinic in Santa Ana, California, spent his career treating African American and other minority patients and said he saw the adverse and lasting health problems from smoking

Several articles over the last 20 years have reported a correlation between cannabis smoking and apical emphysema with large bullae formation, specifically in younger patients 3,5,6 This phenomenon has been referred to as "marijuana lung"

Any of them, when burned, will reverse that process and thus, roughly speaking, for the same amount of energy produced will release the about the same amount of CO2

They may also appear to have no response to pain

Smokers should be mindful of the prolonged recovery periods and heightened dental complications they may face, prompting a reevaluation of their smoking habits