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Originally Posted by MJK
Picture this:
Family of 4. Both parents smoke. Parents both die of lung cancer and then the kids develop all kinds of illnesses from second hand smoke even though they have never smoked in their life.
Good enough?
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Non-smoker here..
Has that ever actually happened? Is there concrete evidence of this. If you look at the actual research. There is actually very little evidence that second hand smoke is nearly as bad as suggested.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/...y-cause-cancer
There's actually an entertaining episode of Penn and Teller's bull#$% on the topic of second hand smoke.
Unless you are in an environment where you constantly breathing in second hand smoke, its likely to have little effect on you at all. You do realize that once someone stops smoking their lungs begin to repair themselves, and will eventually go back to being a nice pink. So, sorry your 5 seconds of second smoke will do little. Add to that, the only place now where you will be exposed to second hand smoke is OUTSIDE, where, unless you are standing directly next to the cigarette you'll be breathing in very little smoke anyways. Its a ridiculous argument.
If all of you non-smokers are so concerned with second hand smoke how come I don't hear you protesting large diesel trucks and suv's driving around. Surely all the pollution they create has dramatic health effects from the chemicals they put out...
Its sad to me that the government cannot dream of giving up the money it makes off of cigarettes, but is trying to keep the appearance that they want people to stop smoking. They do not, if they did, smoking would be illegal. Its not.
I just can't wait to live in a world where everything is covered in a nerf like coating, cars can't go over 50 km/hr, the only food and drinks available are made from wheatgrass, and everybody stands around holding hands singing kumbayah.
Once again, I don't drink too much (at least these days), I don't smoke, I just think the whining about smoking has gotten annoying.