When I was a young kid, my mom and step-dad used to take me to alcaholics anonymous meatings. In those meetings the attendees smoked like fiends. I can remember vividly some forty years later a layer of smoke about six inches thick about four feet off the floor.
Ask a fireman what the number one killer is in fires. It isn't the heat or being burned alive. Smoke is the killer.
I know this is a contentious subject on this forum. I know that figures are overblown by both sides to prove points. I'm not here to say that one side is totally right and the other totally wrong.
If I have a choice to make, it will be to avoid smoke filled rooms. If I have to weigh which is more safe, the room absent the smoke is the one I'd have to assess being more safe.
Amen. Some people just will never admit that smoking kills.May be legal, but it is deadly. My dad smoked 4 packs a day for years, mom never did. BOTH died from lung cancer.
There is no comparison between tobacco smoke found in even the smokiest of bars or nightclubs and the smoke found in a typical house fire. If you want to ask a firefighter (which is what they prefer to be called) about this, you just did.
Of course. But, evidently some people are more like to "catch" it than others. Like allergies, it is very individual. But rather safe than sorry.