More Second Hand Smoke Scare Tactics....

[Obama 2012 1,714]

A bold claim to make figuring it's a near impossibility that second hand smoke kills on its own.

Of course, these people have an agenda to make and are trying to demonize something once again.

There's a lot more genetics behind those who smoke and become ill and the whole second-hand smoke ordeal than they are willing to admit publicly. Of course this isn't and never has been about science, it's been about politics and power. Nothing more and nothing less.

Making a claim like this without being honest about it, is the same Nazi political 'gotcha' tactics that are used day in and day out... It's sickening really.

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http://www.wfaa.com/news/health/Study-Second-hand-smoke-kills-600000-every-year-110765909.html

LONDON (AP) — Secondhand smoke kills more than 600,000 people worldwide every year, according to a new study.

In the first look at the global impact of secondhand smoking, researchers analyzed data from 2004 for 192 countries. They found 40 percent of children and more than 30 percent of non-smoking men and women regularly breathe in secondhand smoke.

Scientists then estimated that passive smoking causes about 379,000 deaths from heart disease, 165,000 deaths from lower respiratory disease, 36,900 deaths from asthma and 21,400 deaths from lung cancer a year.

Altogether, those account for about 1 percent of the world's deaths. The study was paid for by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare and Bloomberg Philanthropies. It was published Friday in the British medical journal Lancet.

"This helps us understand the real toll of tobacco," said Armando Peruga, a program manager at the World Health Organization's Tobacco-Free Initiative, who led the study. He said the approximately 603,000 deaths from secondhand smoking should be added to the 5.1 million deaths that smoking itself causes every year.

Peruga said WHO was particularly concerned about the 165,000 children who die of smoke-related respiratory infections, mostly in Southeast Asia and Africa.

"The mix of infectious diseases and secondhand smoke is a deadly combination," Peruga said. Children whose parents smoke have a higher risk of sudden infant death syndrome, ear infections, pneumonia, bronchitis and asthma. Their lungs may also grow more slowly than kids whose parents don't smoke.

Peruga and colleagues found the highest numbers of people exposed to secondhand smoke are in Europe and Asia. The lowest rates of exposure were in the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean and Africa.

secondhand smoke had its biggest impact on women, killing about 281,000. In many parts of the world, women are at least 50 percent more likely to be exposed to secondhand smoke than men.

While many Western countries have introduced smoking bans in public places, experts said it would be difficult to legislate further.

"I don't think it is likely we will see strong regulations reaching into homes," said Heather Wipfli of the Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who was not connected to the study. She said more public smoking bans and education might persuade people to quit smoking at home.

In the U.K., the British Lung Foundation is petitioning the government to outlaw smoking in cars.

Helena Shovelton, the foundation's chief executive, said smoking parents frequently underestimate the danger their habit is doing to their children.

"It's almost as if people are in denial," she said. "They absolutely would not do something dangerous like leaving their child in the middle of the road but somehow, smoking in front of them is fine."

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Smoking is bad.

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Edited November 26, 2010 by Boing!

[sara..... 371]

my mom started smoking those new electric cigarettes i don't know if it any more dangerous or not but they claim no more tar and smoke.....i know that there is no smoke smell in the car or the home......

sara

[Danno 1,228]

I still don't know one person that has died from smoking.

I can count 4 from car wrecks.

1 murdered.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

I still don't know one person that has died from smoking.

I can count 4 from car wrecks.

1 murdered.

i can count ones from heart disease, diabetes, cancer (non lung related), etc....

WHO refuses to discuss genetics and is full of ####### 90% of the time on their releases....

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Why not just ban it and pass the lost taxes on to everyone else. Then everyone will be happy.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I still don't know one person that has died from smoking.

I can count 4 from car wrecks.

1 murdered.

So you don't think that smoking is harmful to ones health?

[scandal 951]

So you don't think that smoking is harmful to ones health?

He doesn't know of anyone who has died of it.

That means it's not harmful.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

i can count ones from heart disease, diabetes, cancer (non lung related), etc....

WHO refuses to discuss genetics and is full of ####### 90% of the time on their releases....

Well you gotta die of something and I really don't care what you die of or how you get it. I think we should ban cigarettes as a tax protest. Paul...think of the billions in taxes it would deny the government!

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I don't know a single person who has died of AIDS. I don't know a single person who has had their head decapitated. I dont know a single person who has died of lightning. I don't know a single person who has died in a terror attack. I don't know a single person who has had his or her freedoms taken away by a foreign military occupation.

Therefore, raw buttsecks is fine and swords only look scary and don't worry about carrying an umbrella during a storm and the war on terror is a scam and we don't actually need a military.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I don't know a single person who has died of AIDS. I don't know a single person who has had their head decapitated. I dont know a single person who has died of lightning. I don't know a single person who has died in a terror attack. I don't know a single person who has had his or her freedoms taken away by a foreign military occupation.

Therefore, raw buttsecks is fine and swords only look scary and don't worry about carrying an umbrella during a storm and the war on terror is a scam and we don't actually need a military.

Finally, someone who thinks rationally.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I don't know a single person who has died of AIDS. I don't know a single person who has had their head decapitated. I dont know a single person who has died of lightning. I don't know a single person who has died in a terror attack. I don't know a single person who has had his or her freedoms taken away by a foreign military occupation.

Therefore, raw buttsecks is fine and swords only look scary and don't worry about carrying an umbrella during a storm and the war on terror is a scam and we don't actually need a military.

Scaredy-cat.

[SuperDuper! 230]

I don't know a single person who has died of AIDS. I don't know a single person who has had their head decapitated. I dont know a single person who has died of lightning. I don't know a single person who has died in a terror attack. I don't know a single person who has had his or her freedoms taken away by a foreign military occupation.

Therefore, raw buttsecks is fine and swords only look scary and don't worry about carrying an umbrella during a storm and the war on terror is a scam and we don't actually need a military.

You rule, dude. No one is as cool as you. Not worthy. ;^/

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You're just happy about the raw buttsecks.