Originally Posted by
HDQDD
You can argue with science all you want. Go ahead and think the Earth is flat too...
Back in reality land: second hand smoke kills 4 times as many people per year as drunk driving. Smoking in general is tied to 480,000 deaths per year in the US. Drunk driving is about 11,000. (Source: CDC and MADD). Additionally the vast majority of fatal car accidents do not involve alcohol. So should we ban cars too?
Sorry about your neighborhood friend. We just buried my best friend’s mother who smoked most of her life and died of lung cancer (she quit 10 years ago, but the damage was already done). Not that either of these anecdotes change the overall statistics.
Ah the ole earth is flat argument...the good ole go to. We are discussing secondhand smoke. There is no doubt that first person smoking has negative health benefits. Just like alcohol abuse has negative health impacts.
The CDC has made it very clear that actually linking secondhand smoke to death is sketchy at best. If smoking is a banned activity why are people still dying of secondhand smoke? Smoking in public has been banned for many years yet the amount of deaths the CDC links to secondhand smoking does not decrease...hmm. Maybe there are other environmental factors at play?
I suggest reading this great article published in the JNCI Journal of the the National Cancer Institute. Keep in mind we are discussing secondhand smoke.
https://academic.oup.com/jnci/articl...4/1844/2517805