For young adults, cigarettes more pleasurable with alcohol than with marijuana

Young adults get more pleasure from smoking cigarettes while they are drinking alcohol than they do while using marijuana, according to new research conducted at UC San Francisco. The study, led by assistant professor of psychiatry Danielle E. Ramo, PhD [3], is the first to document that tobacco accompanied by alcohol provides cigarette smokers with a greater perceived reward than when they smoke cigarettes while using marijuana. The study was published online on April 18, 2017 [4], in the journal Addiction Research & Theory. ?What we?ve learned may have important implications for understanding differences in couse of cigarettes with alcohol versus marijuana,? said co-first author Noah R. Gubner, PhD [5], a postdoctoral scholar at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies [6] at UCSF. ?Our findings show that co-use of cigarettes and alcohol could be more pleasurable than couse of cigarettes and marijuana,? said Gubner.