Second hand smoke question?

Secondary smoke is potentially harmful. The issue is how long you are exposed, and over how long a time. 10 minutes a day a few days a week is not going to be an issue. An hour each way, 5 days a week, for 10 years is. Neither is a guarantee that you will or will not get cancer, but it is a risk factor.

If this is a work vehicle, you have the right to a smoke free environment in most cases and you can request that they not smoke. If they do, you can bring it up with management.

Second hand smoke is more harmful than actually smoking. Tell your co workers to stop smoking in the truck. Its dangerous.

Not to scare you or anything, but second hand smoke is apparently worse than actually smoking a cigarette, but i really wouldn't be worried about it. Honestly though, you probably get the same amount of toxins from your daily commute.

yes, don't ride with them or if you must, tell the boss to stop them from smoking.. you can get any or all of the same diseases smokers get, emphysema being the most prevalent

------------- 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