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I should probably clarify something here.
I am not saying second-hand smoke is healthy or that it doesn't cause harm.
I am disputing the how much harm it causes--for every study that says it is a killer, there is another study that says it isn't, this is the case with many "studies".
However, the quality of the studies is difficult to compare as there is plenty of free money for someone to study the dangers of second-hand smoke, while any study to refute the claim must come from private money--what school/university/gov't foundation is going to publically fund a study on against the dangers of second-hand smoke?
As for me, I can't stand second-hand smoke. I hate it. But I would never agree to a ban of it. It is very simple for me. If I don't want me or my family to inhale second-hand smoke, than we don't go around smoke--simple solution and I didn't need the government to help me.
I have never, ever been in a situation where I was forced to inhale second-hand smoke.
And there is no way I would believe that second-hand smoke, in the open air, is dangerous.
Hell, I grew up in L.A.--i would venture to guess that breathing the air in L.A. for 18 years is much, much more dangerous than second-hand smoke that is, in effect, filtered.
Smog ain't filtered - second-hand smoke is....twice actually.
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