On 2/25/2012 12:32 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:25:08 -0500, wrote:

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On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:43:01 -0500, wrote:

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Then you're not taking into account the toll from second hand smoke.

Where is the proof that people die from second hand smoke.

http://tinyurl.com/6t3p65o

The Effects of Secondhand Smoke on Adults

There is a lot of conjecture out there but they never put any real
numbers on it. Virtually every other pollutant has OSHA established
threshold limit values but cigarette smoke is seen to have a level of
zero. Are they really trying to say cigarette smoke is more dangerous
than all of the other chemicals that OSHA regulates?
The issue is simply that non smokers or "quit" smokers are offended if
they even SEE someone smoking. It is just about the only class of
people who can be discriminated against with impunity.

If you are simply using the health care cost issue, obesity is a far
bigger problem..

Someone else being obese doesn't harm YOUR health. Being around a smoker
does. I'm not offended by someone smoking, I just don't want mine or my
children's health compromised.


http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/healtheffects.html

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerC...condhand-smoke


"Both mainstream and SHS contain about 20 chemicals that, in high
concentrations, cause breast cancer in rodents"

The operative words are "High concentrations"
A whiff of cigarette smoke is no more dangerous than a whiff of diesel
smoke or that blue cloud coming from a 2 stroke outboard.
The flaw in all of these studies is they do not specify the
concentration that is dangerous. Just smelling something does not mean
the concentration will hurt you. That is true of EVERY chemical OSHA
regulates.

That's because the regulations on tobacco are because of feelings, not
facts like all of the other regulated substances.