Can second hand smoke really give you cancer/heart disease if they smoke a lot?I'm deffanitley freaking out myself now. My mom won't stop smoking ever she's been smoking ever since she was 12 and I've been around her for 19 years should I get a doctor check up or something to see if something is wrong with me?
ChemoAngel
Yes. As a matter of fact, 18,000 American women who never smoked get lung cancer ...and Diane Reeve died at the young age of 44 after never smoking a day in her life. No...as long as you don't have any symptoms there is no need for an un needed xray.
well wisher
YES,second hand smoking has all the dangers of smoking.
But only if you have symptoms and they are worsening then you must consult DOC.
You can take precaution to avoid inhaling smoke by mask etc.
tgit23
--- Journal of The National Cancer Institute
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/90/19/1416
"no single study can provide definitive closure to the debate regarding ETS as a cause of cancer among nonsmokers." … "there was no increase in risk associated with exposures to ETS in childhood"
------------- The Largest study on Second Hand Smoke ever done by Enstrom
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7398/1057
"No significant associations were found for current or former exposure to environmental tobacco smoke before or after adjusting for seven confounders and before or after excluding participants with pre-existing disease. No significant associations were found during the shorter follow up periods of 1960-5, 1966-72, 1973-85, and 1973-98."
"Enstrom has defended the accuracy of his study against what he terms 'illegitimate criticism by those who have attempted to suppress and discredit it.'". (Wikipedia)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2164936/?tool=pmcentrez
------ Court rules that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is NOT a Class A carcinogen
William Osteen (US District Judge) ruling against the EPA
*The ruling shows by scientific definition that ETS is not a Class A carcinogen
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/980717osteen.html
"There is evidence in the record supporting the accusation that EPA 'cherry picked' its data" … "EPA's excluding nearly half of the available studies directly conflicts with EPA's purported purpose for analyzing the epidemiological studies and conflicts with EPA's Risk Assessment Guidelines" (p. 72)
-------- OSHA will NOT regulate something that's NOT hazardous
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=INTERPRETATIONS&p_id=24602
"OSHA has no regulation that addresses tobacco smoke as a whole, 29 CFR 1910.1000 Air contaminants, limits employee exposure to several of the main chemical components found in tobacco smoke. In normal situations, exposures would not exceed these permissible exposure limits (PELs), and, as a matter of prosecutorial discretion, OSHA will not apply the General Duty Clause to ETS."
CDC Study shows cigarette smoke is 25,000 times safer than OSHA air regulations
http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2004/04/american-cancer-society-test-results.html
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US Senate discusses health official's inability to represent any REAL science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCP2IY3SRvY&feature=related
Study about health & Smoking Bans – The National Bureau of Economic Research
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14790
"Workplace bans are not associated with statistically significant short-term declines in mortality or hospital admissions for myocardial infarction or other diseases."
http://www.cigarmony.com/downloads/smoking%201440.pdf
"Conclusions: Our results indicate no association between childhood exposure to ETS(environmental tobacco smoke) and lung cancer risk."
Adli A.
as long u inhaled the smokes, u r at risk!
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