[Hodar]

Regarding Second Hand Smoke

What can it do to me?

To be blunt - it can kill you.

Across Canada, over 3,000 non-smokers die each year from being exposed to second-hand smoke. Over one in ten of these people die from lung cancer. Most of the others die from heart disease and stroke.

And if it doesn’t kill you, it can make you sick. Second-hand smoke can:

Irritate your eyes, nose and throat
Give you a headache
Make you dizzy or nauseous
Make asthma worse
Increase your risk of respiratory infections, or make them worse. These include:
colds
bronchitis
pneumonia.
The more you are exposed to second-hand smoke, the greater your risk. For example, restaurant workers are exposed to almost twice the amount of second-hand smoke that is in offices where smoking is allowed. Bar workers are exposed to levels that are about 4 to 6 times higher than offices.

http://www.canadian-health-network.ca/faq-faq/tobacco-tabagisme/8e.html

[Gabz]

Oh good grief.

Do you know where they get those numbers from? Usually out of thin air.

There is a statistically insignificant elevated risk that SHS will do anything more than aggravate a pre-existing condition, such as asthma, or be annoying.

If you don't want to get wet you stay out of the rain, if you don't want to be exposed to SHS stay out of smoking-permitted establishments. It's called common sense.

[kevao]

Across Canada, over 3,000 non-smokers die each year from being exposed to second-hand smoke.

How do they determine when someone dies of second-hand smoke? Anytime a non-smoker dies of an illness, the illness is attributed to second-hand smoke?

[Great Dane]

You're funny, to trot out what health Canada says is absolutely comical......... it's the taxes they take in silly, if they didn't buy in to the junk science, they would have no justification to rip us off.

[lockjaw02]

Cigarette smoke so deadly you say? Then you better be prepared to end wood burning. "The U.S. EPA estimates the cancer risk from wood smoke is twelve times greater than that from equal amounts of tobacco smoke."

http://burningissues.org/smoke.htm