Why is secondhand smoke harmful?
397329
Let's straiten this out.  Second hand smoke is only harmful to people who for a lifetime are stuck in a home with a smoker.  You getting a whiff of somebody else's smoke from the sidewalk is not going to kill you.  Exhaust from all the cars we drive and radon and CO2 will kill you way before cigarette smoke will.
879840
2nd hand smoke OOOHHH YA!
1126881
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.
1002853
Yes, anytime you smoke (cigarettes, marijuana, crack, on & on) it emits dangerous and often carcigenic materials into the air. \nAs for symptoms, I'll have to pass on that one - I've never smoked speed.\nIf the "someone else" is a developing child, you are risking damaging that child's brain and growth.
371200
Personally, it's not the toxins in second hand smoke that bother me, it's the terrible smell which clings to your clothes and your hair, and for me, triggers my asthma.\n\nIf I'm sitting waiting for a train, and someone comes and sits next to me and just lights up a cigarette, I find it incredibly rude. They show no consideration for other people. I CANNOT be in smokey atmospheres without it triggering an asthma attack......that's my main complaint against it, besides the horrible smell.
702387
There has been a mind-control program regarding second-hand smoke instigated by the controllers of the medical industry.\nThey are struggling to hide the fact that vaccinations are killing people, and they put it down to second hand smoke and sun bathing.\nSecond hand smoke has far less effect that the pollution from a passing car, and is certainly far less dangerous than vaccination.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html
988554
No! Smoking around you while your pregnant will just harm your baby. Second hand smoke is no good for someone whos preg!!!\n\nIf you mean, will it prevent you from getting pregnant? Absolutely not! That's the craziest form of birth control I've heard of so far.
535196
I dont think anyone is a bad person if they smoke!  some people just need a reason to be a**holes!!!
152716
No, absolutely not! It can increase the chance of low birth weight, SIDS, Cerebral Palsy, etc. I know it's hard to quit, I smoke myself-but I quit when I was pregnant, then after I had my daughter, we smoked outside. Second hand smoke is just as bad as first hand. Quit for your baby!!!!
493970
Cigarette smoke contains a number of toxic chemicals and irritants. People with allergies may be more sensitive to cigarette smoke than others and research studies indicate that smoking may aggravate allergies.\n\n \nSmoking does not just harm smokers but also those around them. Research has shown that children and spouses of smokers tend to have more respiratory infections and asthma than those of non-smokers. In addition, exposure to secondhand smoke can increase the risk of allergic complications such as sinusitis and bronchitis. \n\nCommon symptoms of smoke irritation are burning or watery eyes, nasal congestion, coughing, hoarseness and shortness of breath presenting as a wheeze.
619913
If it were treated like alcohol in terms of age restrictions and enforcement, and banned in public so the rest of us don't get your second hand smoke (including in 'just outside the building' corridors of smoke), I don't really care.  I don't think it is worse than alcohol, and it may be better for you. I'd let science decide on that point.
17465
Yes, because not only is it unpleasant to inhale second hand smoke it is dangerous as well.
787734
Ok, so you are in the minority here- along with my aunt who smoked well into her 90's (she's almost 101 years old now). However, have you thought about what the effects of second hand smoke can do to other people? I have to stear clear from my cousins home (both are chainsmokers)- who I love much but I've had to take my daughter- who has asthma to the ER (after a visit to their house).  \nI'm glad so many places are getting smokefree and I feel like it's rather selfish of people who want the smoke to stay when it's affecting the HEALTH of OTHERS.
967820
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.
813310
NO. \n\n1. Secondhand smoke is DANGEROUS and the SMOKE does not know to stay out of the "non-smoking" section.\n\n2. An addictive narcotic is not added to fast food.\n\n3. Smoking does more damage than poor eating habits.\n\n4. The fast food makers did not LIE about what is in their products.
584808
1.3.1 Passive smoke and positives: \n"Second hand marijuana smoke in a car can cause you to fail the next day" (Nightbyrd). It is possible that second hand [marijuana] smoke will raise someone to the 50 ng/mL level; however, *extreme* exposure is required. For instance, a closed car full of pot smokers and a non-smoker may render the non-smoker positive for both urinalysis and the hair test, provided that they are sealed in the car for a while. The Army did a case study where volunteers were put in a room pumped full of smoke for an hour, five time daily. Subjects started testing positive after the second day. The non-smoker would have to take in virtually as much second hand smoke as a smoker. Non-smokers are safe in a ventilated area, as long as they don't get a hair test. According to Clinton, simply blowing crack smoke on ones hair may cause a positive hair test. Second hand pot smoke doesn't affect the hair test results as much as crack smoke does mainly because exhaled smoke contains no THC. The only pot smoke that contains THC is the smoke that hasn't entered the lungs.
687719
No! \n\nFor those that say "second hand smoke is more harmful then smoking"....ummm, how do you know this?  Smokers get '2nd hand smoke', too.  Just because you smoke, you are not freed from 2nd hand smoke.\n\nThe United States Supreme Court overrulled the EPA's 'findings' in 1998 saying that it was junk science and there is no link between 2nd hand smoke and ANY diesase.  The fact of the matter is that 2nd hand smoke is so dispersed into the atmosphere that it is impossible for it to cause problems other than simple irritations.\n\nAnti-tobacco is a much larger money machine than the evil 'big-tobacco' and that is why this information was not widely distributed.  Do a little research on this and you will find out the real truth.