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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'm sure my wife, who has never smoked once in her life but has a smoker's cough from living with her chain smoking mother for 25 years, will be happy to hear that she won't get cancer from it. All the other fun that comes from second-hand smoke shouldn't be discounted, though.