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Possibility of lung cancer from secondhand smoke


Possibility of lung cancer from secondhand smoke?
I just really noticed all the smoking around me a few days ago while I was at an airport. I live in Bogota,Colombia and people here like to smoke a lot. I was wondering if I inhale secondhand smoke on a common basis if there is a possibility of me getting lung cancer
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Many people will say that you will. But I am a survivor of living around cigarette smoke all of my childhood, and my mother did also, as did my children......none of us has lung cancer YET. I do remember when I was little that my dad's cigarette bothered me when the burn-tip smoke got into my eyes and nose. You have to see if the smoke bothers you. If it does, that could be a warning for you.
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Passive smoking is seconhand smoking. inhaling smoke from "secondhand" is almost as bad as smoking itself. If you are in a smoke filled room for 1 hour with smokers, it is equal to smoking 10 cigarettes. there are many types of cancers that can come from secondhand smoke. Out of all of the lung cancer deaths reported, nearly 40% of them were from smoking and secondhand smoke. Smoking the cigarette you are getting the filtered smoke, but secondhand smoke you are getting the "sidestream" and "mainstream" smoke. this means you are breathing in what the smoker is exhaling out, and what is burning off the cigarette
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------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.” In response to Red Angel and supposed 600,000 deaths: That report is one of a kind, first it didn't use any REAL PEOPLE, REAL HOSPITAL RECORDS, or ANYTHING BUT A CALCULATOR. It was released by Bloom-berg Philanthropies an ANTI-SMOKING campaign in NY. It's an overstated estimate applied to world population. Read the report yourself. http://www.who.int/quantifying_ehimpacts/publications/smoking.pdf "We estimated the burden of disease from second-hand smoke by the comparative risk assessment method...of people exposed to the pollutant of interest and the relative risk of disease related to the exposure" Then they continue to use the CDC, US Surgeon Generals far fetched Relative Risk factors which aren't significant to begin with and have been cherry picked to come up with that stupid idea that 600,000 people are dead due to smoke exposure. As Dr. Whelan stated in 2006, “The latest Surgeon General's Report on the health consequences of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) -- and a publication from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that accompanies it -- need their own warning label: "Contains mix of facts, speculation, and downright hyperbole."”.
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Yes. Study: 600,000 People Die Worldwide From Secondhand Smoke Every Year >>>http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/11/25/study-people-die-worldwide-secondhand-smoke-year/#ixzz19IUa6gGA\
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Yes. You can. It is a sad situation that happens to many people. Including Christopher reed's wife, who hasn't smoked a day in her life.



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