Bono Lends Medical Insight for LI Herald Article

Nancy Bono, D.O., chair of family medicine at NYITCOM, is quoted in an LI Herald article about proposed New York State legislation that aims to limit children’s exposure to secondhand marijuana smoke. Bono explains that there has not been enough research into the long-term and secondhand effects of marijuana smoke to say for sure whether exposure has any significant impact. The lack of research is attributable to many factors, including patient hesitancy to admit to doctors that they smoke, and marijuana’s federal classification as a Schedule 1 narcotic under the Controlled Substances Act — the same classification as heroin and methamphetamine.

“It doesn’t make a difference whether it’s vaping or whether it’s cigarette smoke or marijuana, smoke in your lungs is bad for you,” Bono says. “But in terms of secondhand smoke, we don’t have much of a [research] registry.”