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Looking for secondhand smoke information?

I can't seem to locate any info about the effects of secondhand smoke later in life - for example, how long does it take the body to recover from being exposed to secondhand smoke for many years, what are the cancer risks from secondhand smoke on a long-term scale, etc. Any info would be greatly appreciate and best answer'd! Thank you!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Second hand smoke is worse than smokeing it right from whatever your smoking because the second hand smoke has already been n someones lungs and there lungs are dirtty from other smoke, so it cuntaminates the secondhand smoke even more.

  • 1 decade ago

    secondhand smoke is basically just like smoking. when your near the person and your breathing in the smoke your basically smoking. when someones pregnant and drinks alcohol or smokes the baby is basically smoking or drinking. you can fully recover after 10 years. your body starts to recover after 20 minutes. you can still lose 5-7 minutes off your life per cigarette from second hand smoke. Try to stay away from whoevers smoking.

  • MHF
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    ------------- 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/PMC216493...

    ------ Court rules that environmental tobacco smoke (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_docum...

    “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.”

    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....

    “Conclusions: Our results indicate no association between childhood exposure to ETS(environmental tobacco smoke) and lung cancer risk.”

    Showtime television, "How the EPA, CDC, Lung Association, and etc." support their claims.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGApkbcaZK4

    US National Cancer Institute researcher explains the frauds involved in secondhand smoke media reports.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gtMKB6X2o

    Then the US Surgeon General went over all the studies to date in 2006 again and even though he went on public TV and announced "No safe level", the report itself showed exactly the opposite.

    ---The evidence is … not sufficient to infer a causal relationship between exposure to secondhand smoke and an increased risk of stroke. (p. 13)

    ---The evidence is … not sufficient to infer a causal relationship between secondhand smoke exposure from parental smoking and the onset of childhood asthma.(p. 13)

    ---The evidence is inadequate to infer the presence or absence of a causal relationship between exposure to secondhand smoke during infancy and childhood cancer.(p. 11)

    http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsm...

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