Can someone please explain to me why second hand smoking is much worse than actually smoking?

Question

I mean dosn't the second hand smoker breath in the smoke that has already been filtered out by someone else? Just for the record I don't smoke but am a second hand smoker. So how is it worse?

Serious answers only please.

Answer 1

That is simple and obvious Smokers get the filtered smoke..even with non-filter cigarettes the smoke they get
is going through the cigarette. The part they don't get is
what flows away and doesn't get through the cigarette
so it has more toxins than what the cigeratte smoker receives! If you can't avoid 2nd hand smokers drink
the herb comfrey regularly. Comfrey is a cancer preventer! Note I said preventer. Comfrey can't cure cancer yet it can prevent it

Answer 2

There was a study conducted about a decade ago or so that second hand smoker are in more danger that the regular smoker becuse of the reason the smoke they inhaled are stright from the burning cigarrette. While on the other hand, regular smokers get to have a fiter to inhale their smoking.

Now, there is a new study that is contrary to the first. They say first hand smokers are acually more of a danger to their health than second hand smokers.

I would rather much believe being more sensible and all the second study. As streamline (second hand smokers) smokers don't actually get all the smoke from someone who smokes beside them. While regular smokers try to inhale as much of the smoke as they can in a stick of their cigarrette not minding all of its carcinogens.

Answer 3

I really don't believe the self-serving propaganda about second hand smoke. Why can't proponents of this scare tactic just be honest and say "smoking stinks" without the not-so-subtle manipulation of the smoker's psyche to engender the feeling of "guilt." If I didn't smoke, I wouldn't want to be around some stinky smoker and breathe those noxious fumes either. But a non-smoker, in my opinion, should be willing to compromise on what they would agee to do out of empathy for an addiction that has been desrcibed as harder to kick than heroin. But that compromise should include being able to smoke in bars (I mean, geez, the beer bone is connected to the smoke bone.) Not that I go to bars, but I can at least emphasize. Or smoking outdoors. Non-smokers ought to find it in them to be big enough to just choose to move away. I think that it is secondary automobile exhaust that is causing a large part of the respiratory problems in the world. That and coal-burning environments. I mean, where would you rather spend 24 hours? In a room with 12 chain-smoking poker players or a room with a car with the motor running? The former would be obnoxious and unpleasant, for sure, but the latter would be fatal. That ought to tell you something. Cars emit carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is poisonous to humans. But nobody even wants to talk about this because (and I'm no different), we LOVE to drive. You don't see me trying to get legislation passed to outlaw cars (fat chance), and I'm not proud of that sentiment. Indeed, cars are what drive the American economy, and it's no wonder every other commercial you see on TV is a car commercial. I fear that we will ultimately pollute our planet to the point where the north polar cap, that nice white reflective continent of ice, will in the not-too-distant future melt to such an extent that the Earth's albedo (reflection index) will be so low that not enough of the sun's energy is reflected back into space. If that happens, the Earth will be like Venus, where the surface temperature is 864 degrees Farenheit (hotter than Mercury) and it would rain sulphuric acid. The Earth's north polar cap, by the way, is melting at three times the rate it was just 10 years ago. That's a fact.

So, to summarize, I think secondary smoke is a non-issue as far as lung disease is concerned. I really don't believe it. Admittedly, this could be because I subconsciously have my own little axe to grind, or it could be that I'm just plain wrong, but my instincts tell me this is a gut feeling, and gut feelings do tend to be spot on with dazzling regularity.

Answer 4

Apparently as a nonsmoker, your system isn't used to inhaling all that poison and therefore it's worst....the smoker inhales both- the smoke from the filtered end they suck on and the smoke that comes out of the other end of the cigarette....I don't think that the smoker is better off considering that.
My baby sister died of SIDS...it's: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Years later I found a picture with my Mom carrying the baby playing mahjong with her friends...she never smoked, but apparently everybody else in that room was smoking. They played almost every week-end I was told. They didn't know anything about the effect of smoking, yet. This is why I am very strict with people smoking around my kids....

Answer 5

It's not worse, it's just much more deadly than previously thought. An hour of being in the room with a smoker is equivalent to you smoking FOUR cigarettes yourself.....so add up the hours and look at how much you're smoking.

Secondhand smoke causes approximately 3,400 lung cancer deaths and 22,700 - 69,600 heart disease deaths in adult nonsmokers in the United States each year. The danger is very real. Breathing secondhand smoke also increases your risk for cervical, breast and bladder cancer.

Answer 6

second hand smoke isn't filtered at the tip so wen the smoker inhales the filter may block some of the chemicals rather than the smoke that comes off of the lit tip

Answer 7

I don't understand how it could be worse. I suspect that the huge corporations who make products for people who are trying to quit (patches, filters, etc.) are spreading scare stories so they can sell more products. Manufacturers of Stop-smoking products rake in Billions of dollars. I am sure that the pharmaceutical industry has simply decided that they want to make money off smokers.

Tobacco will not be affected too much because they use nicotine to make some of the stop-smoking products.
Second-hand smoking being worse does not make sense because the person who is smoking breathes the same air plus he/she inhales the original smoke into his own lungs.

Answer 8

because when a smoker inhales the chemicals it is being filtered even though just a little.. second hand smoke is not filtered

Answer 9

It is worse because more carbon monoxide comes out of the lit end of the cigarette than the end you suck on...

Also, second hand smoke that is allowed to linger in a room and be breathed in (over and over again) is far worse than the filtered end of a single cigarette outdoors...

Answer 10

I think what is meant by that is that non-smokers living with or in close proximity to a smoker over an extended period of time can contract the same diseases of that the actual smoker eg.heart attack, high bp etc...it is a accumulative process