Dr. Garrett Adams, associate professor of pediatrics emeritus at the University of Louisville, said the ties are "well documented and staggering."
He said children in smoking households have an increased chance of dying of sudden infant death syndrome, or of developing asthma and other illnesses.
And Dr. Robert Goodin, a cardiologist, said more than 8,000 people die in Kentucky of smoking-related illnesses each year, 1,000 of them because of passive smoke.
He accused the cigarette industry of fighting the ban because people in states and cities with such smoking bans are four times as likely to quit smoking as those where smoking is allowed in workplaces.
Some questioned whether there is truly a "right" to smoke, as claimed by many opponents of a ban — and if there is such a right, whether it outweighs their right to breathe clean air.
"A person has to breathe to live," Stephanie Kellerman said. "I can't just stop breathing because someone wants to smoke."
The quote comes from Louisville, KY, which is soon to implement anti-smoking legislation. For more info, try this article.
And they can't prove ANY of it about ETS.
For a first hand smoker there are some risk factors involved. I think that almost every smoker on this forum will agree with that.
What I take exception to is when the govt demands that private property owners cannot allow legal activities on their own property.
If you can't tell the difference between unsupported opinion, apocryphal inventions and decades-long scientific studies, we are wasting out time.
Perhaps you should better spend your time getting your GED.
Better late than never.
Have a nice day.