# Bong Water/Marijuana Smoke

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bong-water-marijuana-smoke/182512>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 17, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bong-water-marijuana-smoke/182512 "2003-06-17T18:11:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![gypsymoth3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@gypsymoth3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gypsymoth3)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bong-water-marijuana-smoke/182512/1 "2003-06-17T18:11:39Z")

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i’m always hearing commercials on the radio for “Rage Against the Haze” that says cigarette smoke has cyanide (sp?), formaldahide (sp?), arsenic, carbon monoxide, etc. in it; but what’s in marijuana smoke? what chemicals/substances from the smoke get trapped in bong water and make it so nasty (so i’be heard)?

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**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bong-water-marijuana-smoke/182512/2 "2003-06-17T18:22:16Z")

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Though this isn’t exactly a topic I usually take up. I’d say if you don’t change your B-Water after multiple uses, you are essentially smoking your pot in a bacteria-infested _ **Spitoon** _. mmmmMMMMM!! Yummy huh? Do you know that when you smoke out of your Bong there is copious amounts of saliva ending up in the bottom. Ever fill it a little too high? mmmMMMM!!

As a teacher who is incredibly Liberal in my Pot smoking thinking I think those who do not clean there bongs after multiple uses are just asking for trouble.

BTW, I may be an instructor a Liberal college now, and one who doesn’t smoke anymore but once or twice every five years with an old buddy, but I surly remember those nasty home-made bongs… I think I’m going to Blaaah!!!

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**Author:** ![rodent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4bbf92/32.png) [@rodent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rodent)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bong-water-marijuana-smoke/182512/3 "2003-06-17T20:45:58Z")

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If you are a teacher, you could use a little help with your grammer.

Maybe it was all the pot you smoked out of there bongs…😉

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Friendly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr\_Friendly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Friendly)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bong-water-marijuana-smoke/182512/4 "2003-06-17T21:05:33Z")

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i think that like the water traps a lot of the heavier stickier molecules like the tars and so forth which make sit less harsh to toke a bong (comparatively speaking, those 2fters with a packed bowl still fuck you up). but yeah, should definitely change bong water every day and maybe use ice.  
i wonder if an “ask the stoner” thread would go down well, i have some knowledge of this subject.