03-03-2005, 06:16 AM
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#79 (permalink)
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Loser
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Originally Posted by shakran
You have the right to smoke all you want as long as you're not poisoning me while you do it. You smoke near me, you're poisoning me.
There's nothing wrong with a smoking ban, and everything right. If you want to kill yourself, go right ahead, but do it in your own house or car.
Oh and by the way it's not just an issue of "well you can choose not to patronize those restaurants if you don't like smoking"
There's the health of the staff to consider. They don't have that choice.
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To be fair, although second hand smoke may be unpleasant and irritate existing conditions (asthma, etc), there is still much debate as to the actual long term health effects of exposure to second hand smoke.
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The new study, to be published in the May 17 issue of the British Medical Journal, shows no measurable rates of heart disease or lung cancer among nonsmokers who ever lived with smokers, and reports only a slight increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Many health agencies, including the U.S. Surgeon General's Office, have long said that secondhand smoke boosts the risk of heart disease by about 30% and lung cancer risk by 25% in nonsmokers.
"We found no measurable effect from being exposed to secondhand smoke and an increased risk of heart disease or lung cancer in nonsmokers -- not at any time or at any level," lead researcher James Enstrom, PhD, MPH, of the UCLA School of Public Health, tells WebMD. "The only thing we did find, which was not reported in the study, is that nonsmokers who live with smokers have a increased risk of widowhood because their smoking spouses do die prematurely."
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