My grandfather and grandmother on my mother's side died of lung cancer and emphazema respectively. Neither one of them smoked.
It's hard to say if it was second hand smoke that caused it. The family theorizes that the illnesses were caused when the town they lived in was under seige during WW2 and they breathed potentially toxic smoke as a result. I think some of the smokers in the family just don't want to admit that 2nd hand smoke may have played a role.
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