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Smoke Alarm Launches New Cannabis And Tobacco Education Initiative 

Smoke Alarm, a new not for profit Community Interest Company, is launching a series of nationwide seminars to help Smoking Cessation Therapists understand more about the addictive interdependency of cannabis and tobacco.

Throughout Europe, and in many other countries, the favoured method of cannabis delivery is to smoke the drug together with tobacco, creating a powerfully addictive, carcinogenic cocktail. The risk to health from tobacco smoking is incontrovertible; the physiological risks from cannabis are more controversial and often less readily accepted. James Langton, Smoke Alarm Director and Founder of http://www.clearhead.org.uk the support website for cannabis users who want to quit their habit, comments:

"Cannabis and tobacco are intimately connected and although the science of nicotine addiction is well understood, much less is known about how to help cannabis smokers with the psychological and physiological aspects of their dependency, and how the two substances interrelate to compound the difficulties in quitting either or both, together or separately.

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