Wednesday, November 12, 2008

How many hours of inhaling second hand smoke leads to lung cancer


How many hours of inhaling second hand smoke leads to lung cancer?
I was at a casino for 2 hrs watching a basketball game & there was a lot of 2nd hand smoke i inhaled.. will this deteriorate my health? i am 33 yrs old & have never smoked.
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i don't think that short term exposure will cause lung cancer...research has shown chances increase with constant exposure (bartenders, etc) I live in Virginia and they finally banned it in restaurants and bars here, THANK GOODNESS!
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Second hand smoke is not good for anyone and the effects would have more to do with how susceptible the individual is to the cancer gene. Some people can smoke for years and it will have no effect and some may not smoke at all and Develop lung cancer. Regardless second hand smoke is bad and cancer is only one of the negative things that can affect your health through exposure to pollutants.
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The media and campaigns would like you to believe just smelling cigarette smoke will drop you to your knees with cancer. But we all know this isn't true, the documented oldest living person in the world who died at 122 years old smoked cigarettes during her life. The actually science cases that were done on the effects of second hand smoke tells us this. “The studies showed that for any given nonsmoker, the lifetime risk of getting lung cancer remains small: 4 to 5 in 1000 ordinarily, and 6 to 7 in 1000 if he or she has been living with a smoking spouse.� The research was done by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and included many studies about the effects of second hand smoke. I hope that helps, seems it'll take a lot more than a few hours.
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you are not going to get cancer from being around smoke for 2 hours... but you can still get a bad cough, have trouble breathing, and any allergies you may have can be made much worse. However, keep staying away from second or third hand smoke b/c both are very dangerous and you can get cancer from second or third hand smoke if you are breathing it in most of your life. and fyi- infants who are exposed to second or third hand smoke are four times more likely to die of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) than infants who are not exposed.
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.I wouldn't worry about 2 hrs of it. Some people actually smoke from childhood to senior years, and never develop lung cancer. Some people never smoke, and yet develop lung cancer. There are no guarantees, but I sure wouldn't sweat a few hours of 2nd hand smoking.
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With the exception of those who have asthma and other lung diseases, there has never been any scientific proof that secondhand smoke is anything more than an irritant. For one thing, you'd never be able to exclude all the other bad things people breathe, and for another, there's anecdotal evidence to the contrary. And Sara, those "studies" you speak of are nothing more than statistics. There's never been any indication that this is related to the causation of SIDS.
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No you can't It takes many, many, and more years of second hand smoke and even then, I still doubt it. It's the actual smoking that will cause more harm than second hand smoke I don't care what anyone says. Especially causing a child to die of SIDS? Where are those statistics, I'd like to read them for myself.. I wouldn't worry if I were you. My mother never ever smoke. She was exposed to second hand smoke all her life. She died at 96 of natural causes. She never had any type of cancer at all. Hope that makes you feel better. God bless.



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