Yes... with no recorded deaths associated with it.
Whereas cigarettes are the single greatest cause of preventable death globally.
From Wikipedia, cigarette negatives:
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Tobacco use leads most commonly to diseases affecting the heart, liver and lungs, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (including emphysema and chronic bronchitis), and cancer (particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, and pancreatic cancer). It also causes peripheral vascular disease and hypertension
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Tobacco also contains nicotine, which is a highly addictive psychoactive drug. When tobacco is smoked, nicotine causes physical and psychological dependency. Tobacco use is a significant factor in miscarriages among pregnant smokers, it contributes to a number of other threats to the health of the fetus such as premature births and low birth weight and increases by 1.4 to 3 times the chance for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).[10] The result of scientific studies done in neonatal rats seems to indicate that exposure to cigarette smoke in the womb may reduce the fetal brain's ability to recognize hypoxic conditions, thus increasing the chance of accidental asphyxiation.[11] Incidence of impotence is approximately 85 percent higher in male smokers compared to non-smokers,[12] and is a key factor causing erectile dysfunction (ED).[12][13][14]
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And then addiction and withdrawal effects are far more severe than cannabis.
Thus, I find it hard to believe your statement of
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Marijuana is way more bad than cigarettes.
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Short term memory vs. Death
I agree with F4P in that its legal status should be similar to cigarettes. It just doesn't make much sense to me otherwise.
It is also kind of embarrassing to have such a racist and xenophobic law still intact in this day and age.