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NewEngland313 t1_jahmime wrote

Studies are out there dude. Don’t joke till happens to you.

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Teccnomancer t1_jahq54b wrote

There have been studies that tobacco use increases the risk of schizophrenia and there isn’t a label on cigarettes for it. I think it’s more of a risk for some people genetically then it is a blanket risk for people who regularly consume either. I assume there isn’t enough evidence through research, as opposed to say the correlation between cigarettes and cancer.

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_jahwvct wrote

I think it's important that studies are not complete and infallible statements of fact. They're observations that can have underlying flaws in methodology, biases, and just incorrectly interpreting data.

"I smoked weed everyday for years and now I'm schizophrenic" for years is a true sentence for a lot of people, but it's almost impossible to say that there's causation where that state means the same as "Because I smoked weed everyday for years, I'm now schizophrenic"

Self-medicating behavior has always existed.

"I take tylenol every day and now I have a brain tumor" doesn't mean Tylenol caused a brain tumor. Most people would say "That Tylenol usage was because of the headaches being caused by an existing, growing brain tumor"

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