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Originally Posted by KMA-628
raveneye -
In return, I would like something from you.
I don't have the study in front of me, but I will get it when I can--for now, please work on the assumption that I am not making this up.
How is it that a non-smoker who lives with a smoker has a much smaller of getting cancer/heart disease than a person that comes in contact with SHS in public?
The non-smoker, living with the smoker, comes in contact with a whole lot more SHS than the person who is exposed to it in public, yet the person who has the most contact with SHS has less medical problems than the person who has considerably less contact with SHS.
I am stuck on this point--it just doesn't work for me.
My logic goes: If it is as bad as they want us to believe, more exposure should result in more deaths, not less.
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KMA, without reading the study, I am going to engage with some of your implicit assumptions.
You are envisioning that SHS inhalers are people who are milling around in bars for a bit of time and go home. Sometimes they are people who go home and their spouse smokes. Sometimes they go to work and are around co-workers who smoke.
Raveneye is less concerned with those people than he is about the worker who inhales SHS all day at the work environment. The reason why you can't wrap your head around that point is because you are comparing someone who has minimal exposure (keep in mind that a lot of people in the home are going to be respectful of their other who doesn't smoke and take measures to minimize exposure--airing the house, going outside, smoking just a few a day, whathaveyou. even though some don't or even if they are chain smokers, it's still just one at a time) to people who are much more likely to experience more dense and prolonged exposure.
Work environmental SHS, however, is denser. A bar waiter(tress), for example, is going to be exposed to hundreds of smokers at once, throughout the workshift. Do you see better why someone who works in a smoky environment would be exposed to more, not less, than a person who lives with a single smoker (even if that person doesn't take measures to limit their spouses exposure)?