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filtherton · 03-03-2005, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by RangerDick

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.

http://my.webmd.com/content/article/...000_0000_ep_01

Since there apparently isn't a consensus among the scientific community we can't be sure either way. Though it seems like commonsense to me that minimizing my exposure to chemicals known to cause myriad diseases and conditions would be a worthwhile effort to pursue.