So your argument is that if one person doesn't get sick from cigarettes then it's safe for everybody?
Check this out from the American Council on Science and Health
http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.346/pub_detail.asp
>>In this report the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) evaluates the large body of evidence that exists regarding the health effects of ETS. ACSH's analysis yields the following conclusions:
* Irritation of the eyes, nose, and respiratory tract is the most common and firmly established adverse health effect associated with exposure to ETS.
* Exposed infants and children, in particular, are at increased risk of respiratory infections, middle-ear effusion (fluid inside the eardrum), and the exacerbation of asthma and other respiratory symptoms.
* Exposed adults are at increased risk for respiratory ailments; ETS may aggravate the symptoms of preexisting asthma and emphysema.
* Extensive epidemiological evidence indicates that ETS exposure is a weak risk factor in the development of lung cancer in nonsmokers regularly exposed to ETS in the workplace and/or at home.
* Epidemiological evidence also suggests that ETS is a weak risk factor for heart disease in nonsmoking spouses of smokers and in nonsmokers regularly exposed to ETS in the workplace and/or at home.
* Other reported links between ETS and chronic disease (breast cancer, cervical cancer, and leukemia, for example) have not been scientifically established and are not addressed in this report. <<
Do not put words in my mouth.
And like over eating and obesity, of course smoking isn't "good" for us. And just what IS safe today? Can you list 5 items for me that is "safe?"
Just this week, more then 3 cups of coffee is now a killer again. Next month, they will come back and say "Oh, actually coffee is rather good for us." I'm just sick and tired of bogus junk science coming from idiots with their own agenda's.
And I realize smoking isn't for everyone, but there are 55 million of us in the United States that really enjoy it and have smoked for a long time.
OMG! Now I understand how you became so easily swayed! By reading a site by ASH???? Good grief!
That's like a DU forum. They have dedicated their lives to bashing and trashing smokers! I never read anything they publish. I would need to do so holding a barf bag.
6 BILLION PEOPLE WILL DIE!
DOCTORS ARE POWERLESS TO STOP IT!
Yes, it's a fact - within the next 120 years, every person alive in the world today will have died, and there is nothing that medical science can do about it.
Doctors are not Gods, despite what they may think. They will not, they cannot conquer death.
DEATH IS INEVITABLE !
Every person who smokes, is going to die
Every person who never smokes, is going to die
Every person who is "overweight", is going to die
Every person who is never "overweight", is going to die
Every person who uses illicit drugs, is going to die
Every person who never uses illicit drugs, is going to die
Every person who drinks alcohol, is going to die
Every person who never drinks alcohol, is going to die
Every person who fails to heed the advice of health advocates, is going to die
Every person who devotedly follows all the advice of health advocates, is going to die
Now the question comes - since we are all going to die, no matter what precautions we may take - is it justifiable for health advocates to force people to conform to certain lifestyles which those advocates claim will maximize the length of a person's life?
Death is inevitable, but health advocates such as the anti-smoking industry claim that they are justified in using punitive pressures of various kinds to force people to conform to their definition of "a healthy lifestyle".