Smoking leaves more than just a bad taste in your mouth — it could be fueling your oral cancer risk.

Studies have consistently reported that cigarette users are five to 10 times more likely to develop oral cancer than non-smokers.

A new study out of UC San Diego suggests that a chronic weed habit carries a higher risk of oral cancer as well. Researchers determined that people who often smoke marijuana are 3.25 times more likely to contract the disease within five years compared to those without cannabis use disorder. 3

“Cannabis smoke contains many of the same carcinogenic compounds found in tobacco smoke , which have known damaging effects on the epithelial tissue that lines the mouth,” said Raphael Cuomo , an associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at UC San

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