Posted on 07/05/2017 8:13:16 AM PDT by MissEdie
Have any Freepers ever looked into the side effects of second hand smoke on the children of smokers?? I wanted to ask ya'll this because of a conversation I had earlier this morning. I was in a doctor's office talking to the receptionist about her 95 year old mom who is in bad shape and we got onto the topic of my own mother, who died at the age of 57 over 20 years ago from smoking related cancer. The lady asked me if I had ever looked into the effects second hand smoke had on kids in the home of a smoker. I looked over at my 8 year old and wondered if my mother's nasty habit was going to take me from my daughter and leave her like I am, trying to raise a beautiful child with no guidance.
Back in the day I looked all this up. When the hysteria about 2nd hand smoke was going on they did a study of all the studies and there was no statistical difference for those who were exposed to 2nd hand smoke.
I’m sure but is it enough to cause cancer? What other environmental toxins are we breathing in? I know that whenever I get out of my pristine rural setting to the big city I get horrible headaches, I always attributed them to the exhaust from so many cars.
My parents both smoked up a disgusting storm at home and in the car. I have never smoked.
I have good health, decades later. But I do generally watch what I eat and have acted on any small anomalies in my blood tests.
About the only thing in car exhaust is water vapor and CO2. (that's why the communists invented global warming to knock us down)
In the country, there is probably a lot more Oxygen due to the trees and grass, where the city has very little.
My father died of lung cancer at the age of 72. My mother died of lung cancer at the age of 69.
My sister (second oldest) died of lung cancer at the age of 69. She had stopped smoking five years before. My only brother (Vietnam Vet) who had stopped smoking after having a mild heart attack at the age of 48, died of a massive heart attack at the the age of 51. He hadn't taken his medication properly...thought he knew better than the doctors. My oldest sister lasted longer than anyone so far, but that's only because she had been institutionalized most of her adult life. She was an alcoholic. She died of a stroke at the age of 74.
I'm 69, and will hopefully live to be 70 next month. I have health problems: hypothyroidism, Type 2 diabetes which I treat with oral medication, hypertension, high cholesterol, acid reflux/GERD (all treated with meds), plus a connective tissue disorder that has some of the symptoms of Lupus, but not enough to be diagnosed with Lupus. So far no sign of cancer, but that doesn't mean I can't or won't contract it. Then there's always the possibility of a stroke or heart attack since those things run in my family too. Personally I think genes have a lot more to do with contracting cancer than anything else.
Yeah, they're probably all tokin' up their doobies (man). And that probably will be the next big wave of indoor air pollution.
That won't hurt you, only compounds of mercury are toxic. That's yet another liberal hoax.
I grew up in a house full of smoke for 25 years.
My dad smoked 3 packs of Chesterfields a day.(none of those sissy filtered cigarettes for my dad.)
My mother smoked 2 packs a day.My dad died at 61 of heart disease,no doubt aggravated by smoking.Neither my brother or I took up the habit.I did have asthma as a child,but other than that, I haven’t had any major health problems.
Best answer yet. I live in the vicinity of the Houston ship channel. So there is lots of fun stuff to breath in and out.
Jerry Brown recently vetoed a bill to prohibit smoking in State Parks, presumably to avoid a loss of park use fees, so I feel free to light up my pipe on the trail when not near dry grass. Reactions I get are about 30% people spot the pipe and smile, 50% no reaction, 20% make a non approving face. One guy cut the corner of a switchback to avoid me which is irrational paranoia. They are the ambulatory psychotics who get these ridiculous paranoid laws onto the books. I call it “engineered insanity”.
That isn’t a complete liberal hoax...like most things, a drop isn’t going to kill you immediately, and you can’t freely ingest it in unlimited quantities with no effect.
I have a degree in Chemistry, so I know that the vapor pressure of mercury is reasonably low, and mercury that has vaporized into a contained equilibrium can exceed toxic levels.
You re correct, though...in normal contact, in a room with even minimal ventilation or a breeze, the amount of mercury liberals would make people put on environmental suits for is just nutty. However, in a space where even someone walking by would create enough of a breeze to prevent achieving equilibrium and resulting toxicity.
Your point is well taken, though. You want to laugh when you read about the liberal (bureaucratic) approach to this, if someone breaks a thermometer and such...
Depends on the age of the child. Second hand smoke exposure in large amounts or constant exposure can cause asthmatic issues.
Just anecdotally, would you say the prevalence of asthma, breathing difficulties and allergies in general have decreased since cigarette smoking became far less prevalent, stayed about the same, or increased since then?
I'm certainly not advocating smoking, but I ask because my own recollection as a child during the late '60's through the '70's is that there were very few kids with asthma and allergies in general, despite cigarette smoking being quite common.
Categorize second hand smoke with climate change.
On the other hand, I had a friend who died of lung cancer at 85, even though he quit smoking when he was 40. It's all in the genes.
Well, in this state, the RATs virtually banned incandescent bulbs and replaced them with the highly toxic mercury-vapor gas-discharge bulb, which when burned out, is considered a hazardous waste.
Remember! Dispose of properly. (mail them to a RAT legislator)
Didn't the "WHO" (World Health Organization-UN) sometime back, declare second hand smoke to have a health benefit, for the reasons you just mentioned. (builds up their immunity)
I don’t know, but I do distinctly recall blowing cigarette smoke into your ear as being regarded as helpful for an earache, I recall it helping me at least, whether it was psychological or what I couldn’t say being a child at the time. Sounds weird now, I know.
Once you get into your 80’s you’re going to get some kind of cancer, whether it’s diagnosed and fatal or not, so I wouldn’t necessarily put too much store in it having been caused by being a smoker 45 years prior. That doesn’t mean it didn’t either, constant irritation of any kind of tissue can potentially create precancerous lesions.
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