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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The effects of second-hand smoke have been vastly exaggerated, with the only link to increased cancer rates being found in people who shared a home with a heavy smoker for 30+ years. Vaping has even less impact on non-smokers, and yet it's just as maligned. Does anyone really think if studies found no significant health risk from second-hand exposure to vaping, it would become socially acceptable?
Health advocates push the empirically dubious risks of exposure to second-hand smoke because their goal is to stop all people from smoking, period. Given the serious health consequences of drinking, they'll do the same with alcohol.
From yesterday's Guardian:
How secondhand drinking ruins lives: 'Every family has been touched by this' |
I won't bother debating medically, I'll concede the study because that's not my only concern. As a non-smoker with sensitive breathing who went into some of those really smoke heavy bars, my eyes swelled up, I coughed, I smelled the smoke until I couldn't smell anything. I still have issues with people smoking outside near the doors (against bylaws!
) so there's nothing you can say to convince me that smoking doesn't have an affect on me. Unlike someone drinking a beer from a coffee mug where, as long as they don't get belligerent drunk, I likely wouldn't be able to tell the difference.