I have been trying for years to explain to non-smokers that the cigarette smoke they breathe is so dilute it couldn't possibly cause the kind of health risks the EPA maintains.
Smoking may be annoying and obnoxious to nonsmokers, and may cause some physical discomfort to asthmatics and those who are allergic, but it's dangers are highly exxaggerated.
The only reason I don't smoke around non-smokers (until or if they say it's okay) is out of mere courtesy, not because I think it's dangerous to them.
Heck, I sit in non-smoking sections when out to eat, because I don't like having smoke wafting in my face when I'm trying to eat.
Funny that so many non-smokers can't be as polite with their own bad habit. Namely, nagging perfect strangers and shooting daggers with their eyes.
Yeh.
Reminds me of the soda pop sweatener a couple of decades ago. All the 'health concerns' were up in arms about its dangers. But, if one read the research, it took something like 800 sodas per day for 20 years to get cancer. [Anyone drinking 800 sodas per day deserves what they get. lol]
You can't tell them nothing! The have blinders on. The hate smokers and that's just how it is. They have their FREE Republic minds made up.
I've been following the smoking threads for a few years and over and over again the antis say they don't like the smell. Health is occasionally the issue,but not often.
They just don't like the smell.
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. ;-)