Is it true that you can get Cancer if youre around smokers, even if you do not  smoke?
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Secondhand smoke contains twice as much tar and nicotine per unit volume as does smoke inhaled from a cigarette. It contains 3X as much cancer-causing benzpyrene, 5X as much carbon monoxide, and 50X as much ammonia. Secondhand smoke from pipes and cigars is equally as harmful, if not more so.\n\nSecond hand smoke is a toxic cocktail consisting of poisons and carcinogens. There are over 4000 chemical compounds in second hand smoke; 200 of which are known to be poisonous, and upwards of 60 have been identified as carcinogens.\n\nWhen a cigarette is smoked, about half of the smoke is inhaled / exhaled (mainstream smoke) by the smoker and the other half floats around in the air(sidestream smoke).\n\n No one should be forced to breathe in air tainted with cigarette smoke.
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There is all sorts of conflicting data on this one, but here are a few sites with some info on studies:\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/141891.stm\nhttp://www.webmd.com/content/article/23/1728_57309\nhttp://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_2X_What_are_the_risk_factors_for_lung_cancer_26.asp\n\nI tend to lean toward the yes side, I just can't picture smoking being ok for the lungs, and the smoke does have carcinogens in it.
112316
no u cant ..only if you have sex with it u cant get cancer from it just stop pulling on it go to the doctor and he can remove it for u . and tell u if u G ...D forbid have cancer.. goo luck and dont worry ..
357687
That's a very low risk, I would say (cutting out the cigars would help) but a lot of this is genetic - some people drink and smoke all their lives and never get cancer and some people eat organic food, never drink, never smoke and get cancer.  It's the way it is.  However, you'll be less likely to get cancer if you live a healthy lifestyle.
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There is no way to hide the smell from non smokers. As a smoker you probably won't smell it on yourself and neither will other smokers. The smell is not only on your hands and clothes but your hair and in your house if you smoke indoors. Your friends may not have said anything out of politeness, but the nonsmokers among them know - they can smell it on you. They may think the smell comes from someone else you are around who smokes.
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it can kill you is the obvious choice not to smoke..it stinks..rots your teeth and causes gum disease and the breath ewwwwww! It looks unattractive to see someone sucking on a cancer stick. You have to huddle together outside away from everyone while you're smoking cause it isn't allowed in any public place. It can kill your loved ones from second hand smoke. It costs a fortune, you would be better off spending all that money on your family or yourself.   It's very very addictive and sooooo very hard to kick.  You shorten your life. Your house stinks, your hair and clothes stink and the breath again ewwww.  You are limited to those who will date you, who wants to date a smoker, not many people anymore.  Hope this helps a bit.
83659
Yes. Very much so. And I'm a smoker. I do not smoke in public, around children, or around pregnant women. It is MY choice alone to die of cancer. Not theirs. I do not defend smokers in ANY way. Smoking is a dangerous habit that I wish I could control and quit. Unfortunately, I can't seem to stop. I've been a smoker for 18 yrs. and I will NEVER tell another human being to deal with MY habit in public because I have the right to smoke. They have more of a right to breath and to live with out being wrongly affected by me. I smoke in the privacy of my own home. I apologize for those smokers who do not get it, that WE are the offenders. Keep it up guys...maybe smoking will be banned.
126442
This is an interesting question, and on the face of it, I would have to guess that it would indeed increase the chance of getting both mouth cancer (because of the increased residence time of various carcinogens in the mouth) and, I would imagine, stomach and eosophogial cancers, since you would be swallowing more carcinogens in your saliva than a smoker who is not chewing gum.\n\nGood luck with that!
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i think something society completly oversees is how powerful our minds our. Mind over matter. If you ever experiment with hallucinogenic drugs, you will quickly realize this. Now though your on the right track with quitting by the half life of the radiation particles that is in tobacco last 30 years or so. So your chances of getting lunger cancer are very very high right now even though you quit.\n\nCheck out this article about some very interesting things you could be doing to help you now that you quit. \n\nCongrats by the way.
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I'm not a doctor or have any professional or eductional teachings of cancer. But I found out last year from the D.A.R.E. program at my son's school is that each time you smoke a cigarette, the chemicals that are in the smoke are drawn into your lungs and they adhere to the vili in the bronchial tubes. This tar substance lines the tubes and weighs heavy on the vili, hairlike tissue that is used to clean the air that enters the lung. The tar substance ends up lining the tubes and narrows them, like cholestrol in arteries, making the tubes smaller and smaller. This makes it harder for the lungs to inhale air and the lungs stop absorbing the oxygen they need to properly oxygenate the blood cells. Your lungs have to work harder to inhale oxygen and your blood cells carry less oxygen to all  the other organs. Also the tar substance will eventually close of some tubes all together and will less oxygen in the lung itself, lung tissue cells die off and are never replaced. Parts of your lung die, parts can't work properly and other parts form cancer cells.\n\nThis is part of the information that my son brought home from D.A.R.E. 2 years ago and I stopped smoking after reading this. I don't know how my damage my lungs are in or if I will end up with cancer some day from the 13 years of smoking I did do, but I do notice that I breath better, I don't cough or wease anymore and I have more energy. My son saved me.
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First teh AHA primarily deals with heart disease.  You may be refering to the American Lung Association, which deals w/ lung ca.  I work in the largest and perhaps best cancer hospital in the world, and do research on cancer (but not lung).  I think everyone should look at the evidence about what causes lung cancer.  Sure, everyone knows a story about such and so smoked their whole life and didn't get ca.  However, smoking definately promotes lung ca, there is so much evidence for this.  Further, lung ca has increased recently, in correlation with worsening air pollution.  Essentially all you can say is, well, I'll smoke and if i get lung ca, so be it.  But know that your chances for getting ca soares, something like 30 fold above non-smokers.  And lung ca is very very difficult to treat, because it presents everywhere, and it's refractory to treatment.  But you shouldn't feel like health professionals are telling you what you can and can't do.  But because of research we know the mechanisms that increase susceptibility to lung ca, and smoking is the major one.
189134
Non smokers tend to think they are better than smokers. They seem to think that cancer will never get them because they don't smoke. Not true. They are just being self-righteous a-holes. Just write them all off as pompous self righteous a-holes and be done with it.
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i can honestly tell you that you will not test positive.  i myself used to smoke a lot. i have quit but my friends still do it.  i am now in the  military and get piss tested all the time.  while at home i am around them smoking all the time and have never tested positive. if you are worried about it still just drink lots of water and you will be fine.
135925
OMG!!!!!!!!  They definitely cause cancer.  Do some research on the internet and then let us know what you think.  I'm pretty sure you'll quit going.
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That's because chewing tobacco never gets to the lungs.\nNicotine causes the addiction but not the cancer. What causes the cancer is all the other crap that tobacco companies mix in with the tobacco to make the cigarettes and cigars taste better and burn better. I have read that the American Native people who smoke only dried tobacco leaves have a very low incidence of lung cancer.\nOf course today we also have all the wonderful polution in the air from chemical plants and car exhaust plus the pollution of the water by chemical plants who produce chemical fertilizers for golf courses and farms and people's lawns. Smoking is only one way to get lung cancer. My next door neighbor never smoked a day in her life but died of lung cancer. She used to commute to New York City everyday for many years because that was where she worked. Sucks doesn't it?\nLL
640416
No, it is a theoretical thing. The only thing that is sure is your chance of getting ill increases. You can never prove it was the secondhand smoke, bad diet, drinking. Just that it did not help.
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I took a look, and noticed on the kids section the following, which said that passive smoking caused:\n\n"Increased risk of coronary heart disease. \nA 10-30% increased risk of lung cancer for non-smokers who are exposed to passive smoking over long periods of time."\n\nThis is complete nonsense. There is no scientifically verifiable evidence linking passive smoking with either coronary heart disease or lung cancer: on the contrary, the largest study ever conducted with a sample of over 35,000 non-smoking spouses of smokers, by scientists from the Universities of Califonia and New York, found that there was no statistical evidence ot suggest these non-smokers (in a study which ran from 1959 to 1998) suffered greater mortality rates than non-smokers generally from either coronary heart disease or lung cancer at any time or any level of exposure.\n\nSince when did the Roy Castle Foundation engage in blatantly misleading, scaremongering propaganda?