[Scenic Sounds]

all that bottle O2

Good point, but aren't there lots of patients who are not in rooms with heavy concentrations of oxygen? I'm hoping to hear more on the question of whether second-hand smoke really is safe.

[patton]

There have been a nuber of studies, and more than a few metastudies, done on the topic.

Most are neutral. One (by the WHO, actually), found Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) to have a beneficial effect.

One, just completed, found that traces (very small traces) of smoke by products could be found in the blood of non-smokers, after hanging out for three hours in a smoking establishment.

None of it is conclusive.

[Gabz]

I'm hoping to hear more on the question of whether second-hand smoke really is safe.

Never said it was "safe," just that it is no where the deadly poison the smoke ban proponents try to lead the sheeple to believe.

[SheLion]

Good point, but aren't there lots of patients who are not in rooms with heavy concentrations of oxygen? I'm hoping to hear more on the question of whether second-hand smoke really is safe.

Second Hand Smoke is NOT The Killer The Anti's Want You To Believe.  Check out all the studies that have been and are being done on this issue:

Second Hand Smoke Studies

Second Hand Smoke Scam

Second Hand Smoke is Harmful To Science

Smoke Claim Disputed

Passive Smoking Doesn't Cause Cancer - Official

Second Hand Smoke - The Evidence

(I think any anti who tries to dismiss the findings of the U.S. Department of Energy labs at Oak Ridge, should be confronted with the question: "Are you saying that DOE researchers committed scientific fraud and that their findings on ETS exposure are untrue? "I'd like to see what any anti would say in response to that question. )

Environmental Tobacco Smoke Study by Oak Ridge Labs

You read all the lies about second hand smoke and passive smoke.

Now read the TRUTH!

EPA - What was said vs. What is true.

click here

Smokers’ rights cloud ASHRAE IAQ debate

Dozens of bar owners and representatives from casinos, restaurant industry trade groups and tobacco companies spoke during the two-hour open forum. Many of the speakers came to the forum from Canada, where several cities have passed or are considering totally banning smoking in restaurants, bars and bingo parlors. Most of the restaurant owners said they have lost or will lose up to 25% of their business if a smoking ban in enacted in their communities.

  of Indoor Air Contaminants/unhealthy living

we link to NYC Clash click here

Source: OSHA

You don't smoke? Guess your safe?  Think again.  Then stop worrying.

Health Alerts

NYC Clash click here

"S S econdhand smoke stinks - but is it killing people? There was a study of the wives of the smokers - they have crummy health habits. They eat terrible diets of meat and fat, they don't get any exercise, but when they show up with worse health statistics, it's blamed on secondhand smoke, not on all the other factors. 

American Cancer Society Admits "Mistake" in Ad

53,000 deaths from second hand smoke?  They made a "typo!"

click here

The list goes on and on and on.....................

[cibco]

"I'm hoping to hear more on the question of whether second-hand smoke really is safe."

Here is one article on it...

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/912501/posts