The problem is, politics and lawsuits always trump science and facts.
Embrace the suck.
Don't like 2nd hand smoke? Stay outta my house.
/johnny
Aw come on, it’s proven science that simply SEEING someone with a cigarette can take 20 years off your expected life span.
As a non-smoker I must admit that I do enjoy not smelling smoke in restaurants and other places. I also hate the smell of it in people’s clothes. However I have never been in favor of not allowing smoking in bars. If it bothers you stay out of them.
Read what it says, not what you think it says:
“this analysis doesn’t tell us what the risk is, or even if there is a risk.”
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Ping
Back in the 1980s or 1970s when so many people smoked, and legal to smoke inside, it was hard to notice in smell,
but without those its easy to smell smoke even on clothes now.
My understanding, regarding secondhand smoke, is that they definitively know that it is harmful to cats, but that is it.
I knew they were lying about it - but then it was “settled science” doncha know.
Claims are made that it will be deadly, primarily to children.
The kicker that there is absolutely no evidence to this effect is that the articles call for studies to prove the effect.
Anybody who knows the subject is aware that there is, contrary to popular opinion, absolutely nothing uniquely hazardous or toxic about tobacco smoke. It's really remarkably similar to smoke from burning any other plant. Inhale campfire smoke in the same quantities and you'll develop similar symptoms.
It's just that no other plant has ever succeeded in inducing large numbers of people to inhale its smoke at anything close to the dosages tobacco has. Even MJ users seldom smoke anything like the quantities a heavy cigarette smoker will.
Next they are going to discover that guns don’t kill people all by themselves. This science stuff is good stuff.
I once asked a respiratory specialist what the cancer rate was among smokers. Looking very sheepish, he admitted it was around 1%. One percent can be a fairly high number of individuals if millions of people smoke, but when they use numbers like 13 times higher than non-smokers, they intentionally mislead the entire public.
The overall affect of misleading is that greater and greater numbers of people eventually begin to ignore possibly valid warnings regarding health issues.
While nonsmokers may have less than a 1% chance of acquiring lung cancer, they DO get it, and they get other types of cancer as well.
It can be very depressing watching your 28 year old neighbor whose never smoked, die of breast cancer.
It’s also depressing to see 4 year olds who have never held a driver’s license, die in a car accident.
I have to wonder, how many people die in car accidents per year compared to how many smokers die of lung cancer?
The point is, the whole smoking propaganda is exactly that. Propaganda. An experiment in controlling the public and to what degree.
Fascinating! If it is not the smoke that kills those on the other end of a cigarette;
What is it then that causes lung cancer?
The heat from drawing it smoke into your mouth?
The hand gestures when lighting or smoking?
I don’t get it....
Gotta wonder where this bit of geniosity comes from. Second hand smoke of any sort obviously comes in degrees but there are far too many examples in my extended family, the circumstances I know the most directly about, of non-smoking spouses and non-smoking children getting emphesyma, asthma, and a couple more lung related ailments when the parents constantly light it up in the house and their cars. There is no history of these ailments any place along the family line unless close-in smoking is involved. They can stick their study where the sun don’t shine and by the way-—how do these geniuses live their own lives. Do they blow smoke continually up their children’s noses?
And then there’s my wool shirts. It was a dead giveaway if I stopped at happy hour because bar smoke would ruin one instantly. I learned to either skip happy hour or shuck the shirt. A stinky shirt will get you convicted of bar hopping every time.
The smell of liberals is an offence to me, their clothes and their thoughts are and abomination to all with a heart, their feelings are always destructive to themselves and others, their minds are useless sewers filled with the lies of evil perverseness, and their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.
These are why they are always troubling all those at peace and why they so often are the murderers of their fellow man. And the government is full of these monsters, most notably in the government school systems.