second-hand smoke?

Question

My mom smokes alot, and I hate the smell of the smoke, so i try to get away from it. But she also smokes in the car, and wherever else I go she smokes, and I just can't get away from it. I know it's hurting my body, and I my mom's too. I've tried to get her to stop smoking, but nothing will work. Would that be considered second-hand smoke? Help me, what do I do?

Answer 1

Yes, that is definitely secondhand smoke.

You know, I was born in 1968 and back then my mom and dad both smoked like chimneys, all day, every day. There are pictures of them changing my diaper with cigarettes hanging out of their mouths! They also never made wear a seatbelt. Yet I'm still here!

However, this is now 2006 and we all have more information. I am surprised that in this day and age your mom smokes that much around you! Please give her information about secondhand smoke you can find on the internet and ask her to only smoke in one room or to avoid smoking in the car. Are there others in your family who can speak to her about it? It's really a matter of consideration for others and she should be willing to make the effort.

I never asked her to change what she does in her own home, but my mother no longer smokes in her house (except her bedroom and she has an air purifier in there) or in her car. She smokes outside on her porch and avoids smoking at all when my children visit. And I really appreciate it!

Answer 2

yes. that would be considered second hand smoke. the best thing you can do is to stay as far away as possible.. constantly washing your hair/body/clothes/bedroom sheets to get the smell away.. ask her to smoke not around you.. or when she is smoking in the car to hold it outside the window and blow away from you.. hopefully this helps a bit.. make sure you always pull aside her with care and love though when you talk to her about this.. make it more of a suggestion not a command

Answer 3

Passive smoking (also known as involuntary smoking, secondhand smoking, or Environmental Tobacco Smoke) occurs when the ambient smoke from (a) one person's burning tobacco product or (b) the smoker's exhalation is inhaled by others. There is controversy surrounding the health risks of long term exposure to second hand smoke, but the most recent studies confirm the health risks. Passive smoking is one of the key issues leading to smoking bans in workplaces, smoke-free restaurants, and public places.

Long Term Effects
A wide array of negative effects are often attributed, in whole or in part, to frequent, long term exposure to second hand smoke. The extent to which the smoke influences the development of these negative effects is the subject of much debate and controversy. Some of the symptoms which have been or are frequently attributed to second hand smoke include:

Increased risk of lung cancer
The effect of passive smoking on lung cancer has been extensively studied. Studies from the USA (1986[7], [8], 1992[9], 1997[10], 2001[11], 2003 [12]), Europe (1998[13]), the UK (1998[14], [15]), and Australia (1997[16]) have consistently shown a significant increase in relative risk among those exposed to passive smoke.
Increased risk of heart disease
Increased risk of miscarriage and birth defects
Increased risk of developing asthma, both for children and adults
Learning difficulty in children
Increased risk of lung infections
Increased risk of ear infections[17]
Increased risk of allergies
Worsening of asthma, allergies, and other conditions[18]
Although the nature of passive smoking makes study design problematic, the weight of evidence from meta-analyses from around the world makes the dangers of passive smoking scientifically indisputable.[19] [20] [21]

Answer 4

Yep that is second hand smoke. Try finding statistics about the effects of second hand smoke on the internet and print them out. Give them to her. Maby that will help.

Answer 5

wow. your getting a LOT of second hand smoke. i feel sorry for you. u could maybe ask her to not smoke in the car and when she smokes stay away. other than that, i dont know wut else u can do.
p.s. If a person spends more than two hours in a room where someone is smoking, the nonsmoker inhales the equivalent of four cigarettes.

Answer 6

Absolutely. Second-hand-smoking is breathing in the smoke of another's cigarette/pipe/whatever. Voluntary or otherwise is irrelevant.

Answer 7

------------- The Largest study on Second Hand Smoke ever done by Enstrom
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7398/1057
“No significant associations were found for current or former exposure to environmental tobacco smoke before or after adjusting for seven confounders and before or after excluding participants with pre-existing disease. No significant associations were found during the shorter follow up periods of 1960-5, 1966-72, 1973-85, and 1973-98.”

“Enstrom has defended the accuracy of his study against what he terms ‘illegitimate criticism by those who have attempted to suppress and discredit it.’". (Wikipedia)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2164936/?tool=pmcentrez

------ Court rules that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is NOT a Class A carcinogen
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/980717osteen.html
“There is evidence in the record supporting the accusation that EPA ‘cherry picked’ its data” … “EPA's excluding nearly half of the available studies directly conflicts with EPA's purported purpose for analyzing the epidemiological studies and conflicts with EPA's Risk Assessment Guidelines” (p. 72)

-------- OSHA will NOT regulate something that’s NOT hazardous
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=INTERPRETATIONS&p_id=24602
“Air contaminants, limits employee exposure to several of the main chemical components found in tobacco smoke. In normal situations, exposures would not exceed these permissible exposure limits (PELs), and, as a matter of prosecutorial discretion, OSHA will not apply the General Duty Clause to ETS.”

Study about health & Smoking Bans – The National Bureau of Economic Research
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14790
“Workplace bans are not associated with statistically significant short-term declines in mortality or hospital admissions for myocardial infarction or other diseases.”

http://www.cigarmony.com/downloads/smoking%201440.pdf
“Conclusions: Our results indicate no association between childhood exposure to ETS(environmental tobacco smoke) and lung cancer risk.”

Showtime television, "How the EPA, CDC, Lung Association, and etc." support their claims.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGApkbcaZK4

US National Cancer Institute researcher explains the frauds involved in secondhand smoke media reports.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gtMKB6X2o

Then the US Surgeon General went over all the studies to date in 2006 again and even though he went on public TV and announced "No safe level", the report itself showed exactly the opposite.
---The evidence is … not sufficient to infer a causal relationship between exposure to secondhand smoke and an increased risk of stroke. (p. 13)
---The evidence is … not sufficient to infer a causal relationship between secondhand smoke exposure from parental smoking and the onset of childhood asthma.(p. 13)
---The evidence is inadequate to infer the presence or absence of a causal relationship between exposure to secondhand smoke during infancy and childhood cancer.(p. 11)

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/report/executivesummary.pdf