[Just another Joe]

and knowing that 2nd hand smoke is full of poison, I disagree fully with Rush and told him so in an email.

Care to prove that with scientific fact?

The three largest studies done to date disagree with that opinion.

Studies run about 80% against there being any lasting physical harm from ETS to an otherwise healthy human being.

[alisasny]

Don’t let the facts get in the way of the agenda.

I have felt for many many years that the assault on smokers is just the warm up for gun owners.

[mbraynard]

Where did you hear that 'studies' are against any 'lastig physical harm?' Asthma is not 'lasting' harm depending on how you define it.

Here is what Phillip Morris has to say about 2nd hand smoking:

Public health officials have concluded that secondhand smoke from cigarettes causes disease, including lung cancer and heart disease, in non-smoking adults, as well as causes conditions in children such as asthma, respiratory infections, cough, wheeze, otitis media (middle ear infection) and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. In addition, public health officials have concluded that secondhand smoke can exacerbate adult asthma and cause eye, throat and nasal irritation.

Philip Morris USA believes that the public should be guided by the conclusions of public health officials regarding the health effects of secondhand smoke in deciding whether to be in places where secondhand smoke is present, or if they are smokers, when and where to smoke around others.

Particular care should be exercised where children are concerned, and adults should avoid smoking around them.

We also believe that the conclusions of public health officials concerning environmental tobacco smoke are sufficient to warrant measures that regulate smoking in public places. We also believe that where smoking is permitted, the government should require the posting of warning notices that communicate public health officials' conclusions that secondhand smoke causes disease in non-smokers.

Further, studies?

• The much maligned WTO report
• US Surgeon General's Report - George W's SG, btw
• CA EPA's study
• The IARC's study showing it's a carcinogen

Ok - now personal - when around smokers in the evening at an event, I am SICK for the next two days. And I'm an adult.

[Jaidyn]

The three largest studies done to date disagree with that opinion. Studies run about 80% against there being any lasting physical harm from ETS to an otherwise healthy human being.

Absolutely! WHO and CRC contradicted their own findings. I wonder who can explain how ETS can be the cause of asthma when asthma is on the rise (50% increase), while smoking is on the decline by 80%? I agree that ETS can aggravate pre-existing respiratory diseases, but isn't the cause of them.