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Originally Posted by NuclearFart
I certainly don't need to post my CV to establish who's more qualified, and I'll comfortably go on record saying second hand smoke exposure will increase your risk compared to no exposure. My argument is that the risk increase is not zero, while your position seems to be that it is zero with vague qualifiers attached. My conclusion is extensively documented in high quality medical literature, and you can easily find this yourself in a real library. Furthermore, you repeatedly attempt to confound the issue by talking about other carcinogens, despite them being irrelevant to the correlation of second hand smoke & increased risk.
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NuclearFart pretty much nailed it. A pretty large part of my job involves studying the relationship between chemical exposures and cancer risk, as well as evaluating the mode of action for the development of cancer, and these relationships are very well established in the scientific literature. Interestingly you brought up benzene from gasoline combustion in one of your arguments, but there is evidence (though not conclusive) that benzene, unlike some of the carcinogens in cigarette smoke, actually does work more the way you've suggested where there isn't really any risk from brief exposures to small amounts.