How many of us here have actually been admitted to hospital because of passive s!
Question: reason i ask is because these no smoking campaigns often say- that children are admitted to hospital because there parents smoke- what a load of trollop- my family smoked all my life and i've NEVER had any breathing problems or respiratory problems, was raised in a pub too- so are they lying & scaremongering or what?
Answers: reason i ask is because these no smoking campaigns often say- that children are admitted to hospital because there parents smoke- what a load of trollop- my family smoked all my life and i've NEVER had any breathing problems or respiratory problems, was raised in a pub too- so are they lying & scaremongering or what?
There is a lot of scaremongering goes on... the whole passive smoking thing has been seriously exaggerated. I think its utterly daft that smoking in public places is banned, yet we have to breathe in gallons of petrol and diesel fumes out on the streets, in our own homes we are exposed to the chemicals used for cleaning (bleach, etc), and the stuff used to fire-proof fabrics is lreally nasty, as are dry cleaning chemicals etc. Fast food places serve up all sorts of crap, soft drinks are full of horrible additives, aspartame etc, prepacked food is full of colourings, flavourings, and god knows what else.... passive smoking seems pale in comparison!
No they aren't. I know two children who have been admitted because their asthma was aggravated by other people's smoke.
Roy Castle never smoked. He died from lung cancer from passive smoking. He used to play in alot of jazz clubs. You would be foolish to think that it has no effect.
I do smoke but not in my house or near other people.
how old are you ? can you see inside your body ? smoking kills internally before you realise any outside sighns
My best friend's mum died of lung cancer. Her husband smoked for the first 4 years of their marriage. She never smoked. Even though he gave up when their first child was born, she died when their children were 24, 21, 18 and 13. She was only 51.
I have intermittent claudication. That means the arteries in my legs are blocked and I can't walk very far. It's involved a number of stays in hospital. I've had it for 20 years and it has severely affected my life. The usual cause is smoking - but I don't. I just shared an office with smokers.
As Hitler once said: I've been murdering people all my life and it's never done me any harm.
I've not been to hospital because of it but I've come very close to an asthma attack from breathing in other people's smoke in for example restaurants and I can tell you, struggling to breathe in private where nobody can stare at you is bad enough but when it's in public it's awful. I don't choose to have my condition, however, smokers choose to smoke.Since the smoking ban I've been able to go to pubs and restaurants without any problems at all. Hooray!
During my Biology degree studies we were taught that the whole scenario of smoking is for tax purposes - they will then move the cause of cancers to something else. At the time I didn't believe it but now I have to wonder as I read in the press about soaps, shampoo's and red meat....!
My husbands uncle died of lung cancer 2 years ago and he would never cohabitate any room with a smoker, he wouldn't even eat in restaurants with a smoking area - he was pretty petty about the smoking thing........it was so ironic when he got lung cancer the family were gobsmacked but the world works in mysterious ways...
I don't know what to believe anymore.
I have seen people who condem smoking in public sitting outside road-side cafe`s with their children in pushchairs which are directly in line with car,lorry and bus exhaust fumes.
They themselves drive large 4x4`s but I never see them condeming cars. "Just a lot of dont do as I do, just do as I say" brigade. It`s strange how the oldies among us are living longer, despite smoking like trooper during the war.
Not me, nor anyone I know.
I was tempted to answer a question posted on this site last night about a pregnant woman smoking, but when I saw all the replies, I had to leave them all to it.
Everyone in my family smoked except for my Mum.
Everybody except for me and my niece have given up the habit now.
No-body suffered from any problems because they were exposed to second-hand smoke.
My aunts all smoked through their pregnancies, and drank alcohol too, and my cousins are all healthy and bright. There is no difference in their mental abilities to those of me and my siblings.
Granted, I am talking of about 50 to 40 years ago when it was the norm, but cousins, siblings and I are still alive and well, as are my 2 aunts who smoked.
Sadly, my Mum died last year from lung cancer. The only one in the family who never smoked. It was mesathelioma that did it though, not second-hand smoke.
More recently, my best-friend was 46 when she gave birth to her only child. She smoked through her pregnancy and smokes now. Her son is the a beautiful example of radiant happiness and health.
For a while I was scared by all these reports too; I smoke heavily around my cat and my cockatiel, and I worried it might affect them. I worry no more; my cat will be 17 in March and is really fine. My cockatiel has lived with me for 14 years, he was already adult when I took him in, and he is really fine too.
What harm can it do them now?
What is true, and what is not, often is based on what we really believe.
Some things work for this person, but not for another.
So I really agree with your opinion, but, out of consideration for others, I never smoke in another person*s home unless they are smokers too.
As to what it is, Gemsun might have the best explanation.
Whatever, it is all political and controlled.
People have been smoking for centuries.
And drinking coffee too ... that is the next on the taboo list.
Except coffee fumes never have a chance to be second-hand!
Good question! A chance to speak out without fear!
I know no person who has become ill through passive smoking. The idea that exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke must damage health is based on junk science. Yes, poor Roy Castle died from lung-cancer; but there is no proof that it was caused by passive smoking; just a non-scientific assumption that it was. Now if one condemns passive smoking because it is irritating, smelly and in other ways objectionable, then I would support that wholeheartedly. Anybody should be able to visit a public enclosure and not be subject to tobacco smoke if they do not like it.
I know of no-one who's been admitted because of passive smoking.
You only have to look at some of the answers here to see how one sided the research is. One answerer cites Roy Castle, another cites a friends mum, one was exposed to second hand smoke for 40+ years in pubs and clubs, the other was exposed for approximately 4 years 20 years ago, yet both are being blamed on the same thing.
A friend of mine is severely asthmatic, I've never seen him have an asthma attack in a pub, I've seen him have one in the office when someone got a bit carried away spraying deodorant around.
nope never..not myself or my kids...however we have all ended up in the ER from woodsmoke..it is worse then cigarettes..
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