You got it!!!!! 
Posted on 01/28/2005 1:50:34 PM PST by SheLion
Just how harmful is environmental tobacco smoke?
Not as harmful as the Environmental Protection Agency or those anti-secondhand smoke commercials would have one believe, according to Roger A. Jenkins, Ph.D., consultant to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Chemical Sciences division.
Jenkins presented "Human Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Is What You See What You Get?" at ORNL this week.
"Some people wish I didn't have the findings I have," Jenkins said. "Others say, 'Gee, if this is true, why does the EPA continue to talk about this?' [The research] steps on people's toes, and that's exactly what I want it to do."
Environmental tobacco smoke is a highly diluted mixture of sidestream (70 to 90 percent) and exhaled mainstream (10 to 30 percent) of tobacco smoke.
"'Secondhand' smoke is probably misleading, since most ETS is derived from smoke which is emitted by the smoldering firecone of a cigarette," Jenkins said.
According to Jenkins, the typical smoker inhales 480 milligrams of smoke a day and 32 milligrams of nicotine per day. In a home where smoking is unrestricted, the typical non-smoker will inhale the equivalent of .45 milligrams of smoke particles and .028 milligrams of nicotine.
There are several science-related hurdles to overcome in educating the public about ETS, Jenkins said. The first is getting the public to understand the difference between personal beliefs and science.
"In a society where there are still serious debates about evolution, this can be a real challenge," he said.
The second is avoiding the "means justifying the end syndrome," which Jenkins says involves the distortion of science in the name of preventing youth from smoking.
The third major hurdle is demanding "public policy types" provide perspective for the facts they declare.
"Sure, there are 43 carcinogens (cancer-causing agents) in ETS, but there are also probably about 40 carcinogens in diesel exhaust and wood smoke," Jenkins said.
Indoor air pollution is also caused by many things other than non-tobacco sources, including cleaning, cooking, consumer products like Raid and wood burning.
"As (physician) Paracelsus said in the early 1500's, 'the poison is in the dose,'" Jenkins said. "We still continue to eat lettuce and take showers despite their carcinogens. Life is risky business."
Jenkins is simply remaining true to his profession by bringing forth this politically incorrect information, he says.
"When you start tinkering with science because you want to achieve some political aim, you are no longer a scientist."
Jenkins retired in September from his position as leader of the Environmental Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry Group in the Chemical Sciences Division at ORNL. He has authored or co-authored more than 45 open literature publications in the area of field analytical chemistry and tobacco smoke characterization and human exposure. He is the lead author of "The Chemistry of Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Composition and Measurement," Second Edition.
Jenkins has also acted as an expert witness in several high-profile litigations involving environmental and mainstream tobacco smoke composition and exposure
EEEEEK! I DO get fired up, don't I! heh!
Forgive me??
Well.....I'll consider it....if you buy me a beer.
xo
J.
Unless I'm confusing you with someone else, I'm pretty sure that you only support my desire to smoke because you think it'll kill me faster.
If I am confusing you with another poster, I apologize.
You got it!!!!!
I know, and they're getting away with it because people have bought for so long the idea that second hand smoke is dangerous, and/or they just don't like the smell, or they think smokers are unintelligent or morally deficient, or...
Shall I go on? LOL
The idiocy of it all amazes me.
Ah!
All is forgiven, my child!
Regards,
You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body.
The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory.
Someday this war's gonna end and I'm going to smoke a cigar. I have always loved the smell of tobacco in the morning.
I'm beginning to know which ones in here are under 30. Most have been brain washed and bought the anti's lies, lock stock and barrel.
Yep, most are either under 30 or the older ones have quit smoking and they can't stand that the rest of us do and still love it.
Strong physical addiction to nicotine and insulin rush that nicotine creates. On a scondary and more lasting level, the learned behavior that the relief of the withdrawal symptoms provide which is reinforced over and over again creating an emotional addiction triggerd by associations to routine events. The addict comes to see relief of withdrawal as pleasure and in a way it becomes pleasure.
Well, I really am sorry. Your name is very close to one nasty anti that used to come in here.
Again, I am very sorry. I wouldn't hurt my friends for anything in this world!
Why don't YOU STFU?
I'm not the one that's asking!
Re: The 'truth' about tobacco smoke From T.Smith | 01/28/2005 10:39:52 PM EST replied
Geez, read through the entire discussion first. You are one obnoxious old bitch.
So now I am an OBNOXIOUS OLD BITCH. Goodness!
Now I gotta see if I can go to sleep.
Goodnight, y'all!
The typical mark of a coward.
Gets trounced on the thread and resorts to freeps!
LOL!
Goodnight, lovely lady.
Kind of late in the thread to jump in but.....anyway, a person can't be allergic to cigarette smoke. Allergies are caused by proteins and smoke has none. What it does is irritate the sinus passage and that mimics an allergy. ;-)
So much for the "young and dumb" thing, eh?
LOL!
Read through the entire thread? LOL. I did that, and despite his claims to the contrary, he was an instigator here.
That was a pretty crappy thing for him to say.
Good night, TC.
Really? I didn't know that. Thanks.
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