Question for Non-Smokers ---- Where is the proof that second hand smoke causes cancer.?

151>There is no proof.





Just like there is no proof that other things cause cancer such as:





Tv Dinners


Cell Phone Radiation


Hair Color


Broccoli (and yes, I saw on the news once that it may cause it)


EMF and RF radiation from electronics


SMOKING


Alcohol


Laundry detergent


Additives and perfumes in personal hygiene products --ahem.. such as perfume


Preservatives in food


Steroids and hormones in meat


Paint fumes


Stress from things such as work, family problems and NOISY screaming KIDS IN RESTAURANTS





and what about inhaling dry wall dust, cat litter, baby powder, comet, flour, etc. Hmmm.





Well .. you get the point. But how can people single ONE thing out and say that it is hazardous to their health when they don%26#039;t even know for sure? If there was proof for all of these causes for cancer, they could find a cure. I don%26#039;t buy it. It%26#039;s not harmful. People have smoked for centuries.





The anti-smoking crowd needs some of their rights taken away so they can know just how it feels.
Reply:Go have a cig!
Reply:http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/conten...





http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/tobacco...





http://www.tobacco-facts.info/second_han...





http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/pubs/etsfs....





http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...





%26#039;nuff said.
Reply:Well first off i%26#039;m a former three pack a day guy. So was my father. My father worked his a$$ off his whole life only to have the cigarettes he loved snuff his life out less than a year before he was due to retire.


I can tell you from first hand knowledge that the kind of cancer smoking gives you is a pretty much unique kind of cancer, it%26#039;s small cell cancer. This type of cancer is far more agressive than other types of cancer, does not respond to treatment as well, and is far more likely to return after they kill it with chemotherapy. If you have that type, it%26#039;s a pretty good bet that it came from tobacco, and there have been plenty of non-smokers die from it.


You can minimize the harm cigarettes all you want, but let me tell you what convinced me. I watched my dad, who was a 220 pound guy that lifted weights every day, get turned into a 90 pound shell of what he once was. The tumors in his brain prevented him from speaking, and paralyzed his entire left side. I sat by his bedside for 3 days as he slowly drowned from lungs that slowly stopped functioning. I will never forget the horrible look on his face as he drew his last breath, and how they wheeled him out of that hospital room an hour later with that god awful expression frozen on his face.


I%26#039;m not going out like that. I hope you won%26#039;t either. Put those awful cigarettes away.
Reply:My grandfather signed up in WW2 and started smoking to cope with the stress.





He died from Lung Cancer when I was 5. Don%26#039;t give me this crap about it not being harmful.
Reply:And you wonder why the average life expectancy if a person in a remote village is about 100.
Reply:you can rant all you want...the facts are clear. perhaps you could type your way onto the american lung association website and educate your ignorant self!