Third-Hand Smoking: Serious Health-Risk or Activists Taking It Too Far?

[UpSkirtDistress]

until there is conclusive evidence to prove me wrong i'm just gonna say, people stop bitching about it, I wont smoke near you if its a problem thats basic manners but seriously if you think third hand smoking is possible health problem get back in your bubble.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

When it comes to research, no one should EVER poll the average American. But anyway, it does sound possible really. Besides, you can never be too sure.

 

[CuddlyCombine]

There needs to be scientific proof before people start freaking out about things.

 

[NicotineStainedSoul]

I laugh that they worry about third hand smoke, when every morning I have to wait standing at a bus stop having exhaust fumes from trucks, buses and cars belched into my face

 

[Torian_Kel]

Excuse me for being an idiot, but third hand smoke?

This.

 

[Marv21]

Considering TRUTH is a lie....I would love to see Rob Reiner try to sell this bullshit!

 

[Torian_Kel]

An athsmatic speaking:

If I smell any cigarette smoke AT ALL, even on clothes, my lungs fill with mucous to wash it out, and I can't breathe.

So it's an issue to me, yes.

As a fellow asthma sufferer, I agree.

Basically, if I'm around someone who WAS smoking, I suffer an asthma attack. It can be light, to the point I just suffer a few minutes and I'm good, or it can be to the point where I need my inhaler.

If I'm around someone who is CURRENTLY smoking, it's a severe attack which guarantees I need my inhaler, and could send me to the ER if exposed long enough.

And if I were to actually smoke, we skip the ER and I go straight to the morgue.

So third degree smoke isn't the worst thing, but it still has an effect. And I am inclined to punch anyone who causes me an asthma attack because of a sick fucking addiction they should have outright banned long ago.

You are a bit judgmental. People have the right to smoke and it isn't a sick addiction - at least anymore than any other addiction people have. I get sick from cars, factories, barbeques and burning leaves -should I punch all those transgressors? I see much of our pollution as a sick fucking addiction if that's how you phrase smoking. Seeing your rant makes me want to light up and I don't even smoke.

Bans are a violation of our civil rights- we have the right to smoke, drink, eat poorly, and party. If you drive and ***** about smoking you're a hypocrite (unless you drive a full electric car from a region that gets power from hydroelectric, wind, or another airsafe method of electricity generation.)

your an idoit

ok now that we got that out of the way heres why:

1 how is it not a sick addiction? it gives you cancer,heart disease, fucks up your lungs, and makes a number of phyiscal changes (like yellow teeth wrinkles) and for what? not a reason in the world thats what
2 it gives not only yourself these things but it gives others them
3 no where in the constitution does it say anything about smoking and were is founded today it would be banned
4 your arguements are invalid because (for example) in resturants smoking makes their work environment unsafe
to put this into a metaphor: a resturant starts filtering carbon monoxide into the resturant for no reason at all, while it may not hurt the employees directly they will experence health defects
that is one of the best metaphors ive used in this debate hm.....wait a second this seems to be what smoking does.......
5 the difference is people dont get cancer from driving cars and cars sure as hell dont increase peoples chances of being cancer that are around them again your arguement is invalid because cigerattes are unliked not because of air pollution but because of the health risk
6 if someone could invent a cheap affordable solar powered car then people would use it BUT offer a cigeratte patch, gum, injection, or whatever they will not use it dont try to deny that because their is all those things (minus the injection part to the best of my knowledge

grow up

3) The constitution gives everyone the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Smoking takes life but gives happiness to some...so you are at a hell of a conundrum.
5) Exhaust is more carcinogenic than cigarette smoke.

 

[Overlord Moo]

Yes... that's the great research, I'm not joking. They polled average Americans and used that as evidence. .

I don't know if I should laugh or cry.

I'm laughing out of the shame I have, because I am a member of the human race and, appearantly, abunch of people are stupider than me, which is sad because I am a " good-for-nothing" teenager (curse you FOX news!).

 

[Beefcakes]

The arm on my chair is an ash tray, and I exhale directly into the fabric, so I think it would be a problem at my house...
[small]For the record, the above statement is sarcasm. I have never smoked in my life, and if I plan on doing so, I'll do it in the least harmful way towards others. But really? Third hand smoking? Ugh...[/small]

 

[Motti]

I really need to stay away from my IT teacher then. Seriously, this worries me about as much as anything does. In other words, not at all.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Ya know what comes out of factories and cars in such great volume is worse than 2nd hand smoke.

This anti smoking non sense has gotten so bad you can't smoke in a separate room in a restaurant anymore... every right they take away leads to 2 more things they find problematic for the public that has to be limited...its a nasty slippery slope that is going to take all freedoms away because everything has a dozen rules to it.

 

[Captain Blackout]

I suspect that article is spot on except for the method of testing. Dear God what have we come to? My father would have agreed with all of that article after his finished tearing the CBC a new one over the survey. Possibly literally. He was an oncologist who smoked.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Lol I agree. Stupidest thing ever, thats like saying that people high on pot can get into fights...

*Fight between 2 high people*
"Hey buddy!..."
"Hey?"
"Hey..."

-End of fucking argument.

I find it truly sad that this is one of those "Major Epidemics" more like Epic Lol .
Honestly both my parents are heavy smokers and I think that second-hand smoke is made a bigger deal about than it really deserves... (Not saying its not bad and doesn't cause health problems, but the way some people go on about it you'd think a cigarette was being forced into the guys mouth!)

 

[EgoDeusEst]

I have no clue how serious a health risk it is. What I do know is that it's fucking gross.

 

[traceur_]

le fuck?

this

 

[twistedshadows]

its a freedom of choice to smoke or to be around smokers

No offense, but that's not really true. If I could choose not to be around cigarette smoke, I would do so in a heartbeat, but that's not the way reality works.

For example, when I walk across the campus of my school, I encounter an extremely high number of smokers and I can't do anything about that. I'd have to hold my breath between my classes to prevent myself from inhaling smoke, which just isn't possible considering I have to walk for ten minutes and can only hold my breath for one. And school isn't nearly the only place I deal with unwanted inhalation.

Don't get me wrong, I believe people should have freedom of choice, but the politics start getting complicated when one person's freedom of choice begins infringing on another's freedom of choice. There's really not much that can be done about it.

But I hate it when people say I have the choice not to be around smoke because that's a complete lie.
The only way it could be true is if I chose not to leave the safety of my home (and even then the people who live upstairs smoke and it filters down into my apartment).