Secondhand Smoke is as Real as the Lost Smoke Monster

Posted by Hamlin 12:19 PM, 09/11/2008
The other thing that bothers me is the fact that this isn't even a health issue. There is no evidence that second hand smoke is harmful to non-smokers. Every study or statistic can be drawn back to one study done in 1993 that a judge threw out of court as admissible evidence because the "experts" had cherry-picked their data to arrive at a pre-conceived conclusion.

Let's go to the fact board at cancer.gov!!

Does exposure to secondhand smoke cause cancer?
Yes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP), the U.S. Surgeon General, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have classified secondhand smoke as a known human carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) (1, 3, 5).

Inhaling secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmoking adults (4). Approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths occur each year among adult nonsmokers in the United States as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke (2). The Surgeon General estimates that living with a smoker increases a nonsmoker’s chances of developing lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent (4).

Some research suggests that secondhand smoke may increase the risk of breast cancer, nasal sinus cavity cancer, and nasopharyngeal cancer in adults, and leukemia, lymphoma, and brain tumors in children (4). Additional research is needed to learn whether a link exists between secondhand smoke exposure and these cancers.