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Second hand smoke question?

I'm around a co worker who smokes in the vehicle when we are driving to different locations throughout the day. He is constantly smoking and I'm a very paranoid person who doesn't smoke. Will I be effected by the smoke I'm kinda scared because I see all these cancer articles on the Internet. I roll down the window and breath the fresh air and I try not to breath the smoke. Please help!!

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    No it wont harm you but doesnt say you wont get cancer as there is hundreds of different types that even non smokers can get because alcohol, junk food, chemicals, exhaust fumes, radon gas and lack of exercise all put you at the same risk as smoking does so I would be more worried aboutt he exhuast fumes that get intothe car than his second hand smoke, Good Luck

  • MHF
    Lv 6
    6 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.”

    -------- Secondhand smoke is as safe as dust

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC292799...

    “Among never smokers in our population, we observed no association between either exposure to ETS at home or at the workplace and lung cancer risk”(p. 5)

    “Our results support the concept that exposure to exhaust fumes and or soot/smoke (***from non-tobacco

    sources***) is a source of carcinogenic exposure.” (p. 7)

    “ETS exposure was not found to significantly increase risk among never smokers in this study”(p.7)

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

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AjXwSJtxGc

    Reason TV - How far is too far?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=136FNtfOgRY

    -------- PURPOSELY misleading the public with MEDIA STRATEGIES -------

    The Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health was enacted by Congress in 1984 which is a collection of Health and Human Services, American Heart and Lung Association, National Cancer Institute, World Health Organization, CDC and many other government funded health organizations. (eliminating any independent sources of information).

    Below are direct quotes from those meeting notes:

    “Social (Un)acceptability of smoking will be decisive TOOL an the road to a smoke-free society.” Using “four mechanisms: - passive smoking, - social cost, - ELIMINATE ALL INFLUENCES in society which could reflect favorably on smoking, - educational campaigns for children (App.II) “

    “although passive smokers may suffer considerable subjective discomfort, a lasting adverse health effect is probably not likely to result in otherwise healthy, grown-up individuals . “

    ““Lindahl concluded that it is difficult to demonstrate harmful effects of passive smoking on healthy nonsmokers ; there is little proven in this area”

    “He admitted that he couldn't explain how or why smoking harmed the fetus but suggested that, instead of worrying about such fine points, women be told that all unborn children of smoking women will be hurt “

    “We're moving out of the horse and cart era, we're not yet in the jet age of MEDIA STRATEGIES, but we're getting there “

    Review of Notes and all contents: http://rampant-antismoking.com/

    Actual meeting notes: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/efp57a00/pdf

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

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