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Originally Posted by Stompy
Is smoking harmful? Yes.
Is second hand smoke harmful? Sure, but no more harmful than you eating fast food, not exercising, drinking 20 cups of coffee a day, or getting drunk on a weekly basis.
If you're going out to bars so often that you're upset about second hand smoke, then maybe you should check your alcohol problem, haha. Unless, of course, you're going there to just hang out, but right.. chances are you're there drinking.
I honestly believe that people complain just for the sake of complaining.
Going out to the bar or whatever one or two nights a week and being around smoke for 30-60 minutes... it is very HIGHLY unlikely that you will get any health side-effects from it. That's being TOO paranoid.
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This is the saddest little argument I've seen repeated over and over on this thread by smokers, this idea that we do other harmful things to ourselves so why single out smoking. Well, no matter how much I drink, I'm not going to give YOU cirrohsis of the liver, no matter how many times I supersize, your cholesterol will not rise, and no matter how many cups of coffee per day I consume, you will never become hypertensive because of it.
people who don't smoke are not "complaining for the sake of complaining" they are objecting to the fact that they are being unwillingly subjected to carcinogens. It does not matter what their exposure time is90 minutes at dinner, two hours at a bar, whatever, ANY amount is too much, regardless of the obvious health concerns (seriously, when you see a real human lung from a smoker and one from a non-smoker it's obvious to a four-year-old that smoking is not good for you) it's just rude and filthy to do indoors.