Why are cigarettes legal and marijuana is not? Smoking cigarettes kills about 6 million people per year, including 600,000 from second-hand smoking, according to the World Health Organization. Smoking cigarettes causes all types of health issues such as heart attacks, strokes, emphysema, and many types of cancers like lung, kidney, neck, throat, head mouth and stomach. According to multiple sources marijuana does not cause death, but cigarettes do. There are multiple medical professionals that have stated that marijuana is impossible to overdose on. How are cigarettes still legal, but marijuana is not with these known facts? Cigarettes are legal, but are one of the main causes of death today. Marijuana on the other hand helps people who have
