[Ditter]

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that tobacco smoke is the ONLY thing that causes asthma. Asthma is a complicated disease & there are many inhalents that will bring on an attack. It just depends what the person is sensitative to. It could be cats, house dust, pollen, mold, weather change, or a thousand other things. Tobacco smoke is one of many.

[CSM]

I was using asthma as an example that is falsely attributed to tobacco smoke. I agree with you that any one of the health problems that are supposedly caused by tobacco smoke is caused by any number of things. If tobacco smoke caused all of the diseases attributed to it, then we would see a direct correlation instead of the sporadic statistics thrown around.

I would go so far as to claim (no proof for this claim) that the lack of exposure to SHS for children has actually weakened their immune system and now when they are exposed to these other contaminates they are unable to fight off the effects. Some studies have shown that exposure to SHS and to Pets in the home have resulted in a lesser occurance rate of these other diseases. Think of exposure to SHS as a vaccination to other diseases.