How it is possible that you and I are sitting in a room playing cards. I am actively sucking on a cigarette, you do not smoke.
How is it possible that what I exhale is worse for you, the non smoker, than it is for me. Not only am I sucking it into my lungs, I am also sitting in the room with you. How is it possible that it is worse for you?
2007-03-21 10:10:55 · 13 answers · asked by uab_skinhead 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Yeah...but I always hear people say something stupid like "2nd hand smoke it worse for you than smoking"
I hate California. I just returned from California. Its not the smoking thing...its the whold thing!
2007-03-21 10:18:02 · update #1
So, southflorida - you and I in the same room. You are getting unfiltered smoke, and I am not?
2007-03-21 10:22:29 · update #2
I never understood it either, but those ads are the reason I started smoking. I figured since second hand smoke is more dangerous, I better get the first hand smoke!! Heheheh....
The same thing confuses me, for the same reason. The smoker is sitting in the same room as the non-smoker. The smoker is getting filtered smoke, but also inhaling the un-filtered smoke in the air.... So, shouldn't the smoker be getting it worse than the non-smoker, who is only getting the un-filtered smoke (as opposed to the smoker getting filtered, and un-filtered smoke).
2007-03-21 10:19:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
First off its the unfiltered smoke that does the most damage to the non smoker. When a cigg burns and you enhale the smoke and exhale.. both the filter and your lungs take a percentage of what is in the smoke in away. Off the lit end of the cigg however there is unfiltered smoke being released into the room and it will linger and fill the room. Not only are you breathing this in in addition to the smoke you inhale directly thru the cigg but so is everyone else. It is equally unhealthy for either you or others to be in the room with this smoke but the others may not be a smoker so thier lungs will not be used to smoke enhalation so it may effect them more then you. It is your choice to smoke but by smoking indoors it doesnt give thm the choice not to smoke because the room is filled with it. Hope this helps
2007-03-21 17:22:00 · answer #2 · answered by Get Money 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not only what you exhale. You may notice that smoke comes out of the lit end of the cigarette too. The smoke that comes from the lit end is unfiltered. When you inhale smoke from the cig it goes through a filter. Non-smokers breath in both what you exhale and the unfiltered smoke.
2007-03-21 17:18:15 · answer #3 · answered by southfloridamullets 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It isn't worse. In fact, it causes no harm to your body. Maybe the non smoker doesn't like the smell, or it irritates them, but it has NO effect on their health. It's all a made up lie (this "second hand smoke" is just crappy science, based on a fraudulent so called scientific study). The government even admitted this (years later, after too many laws have been passed to change back), but they still defend this stupid result because it allows the government a reason to make laws regarding smokers, and makes them popular, and gets votes for them, when they go for re election, with the non smokers.
But you may as well give up trying to change anything. They're not going to change back to the way things are. In fact, now that the "ball is rolling", there will be more "scientific studies" forthcoming, which will cause more laws to be passed. Such as fast food restaurants causing people to be fat. Or just being fat itself may someday be illegal.
2007-03-21 17:23:21 · answer #4 · answered by MrZ 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Second hand smoke does not just refer to what you exhale. It also refers to the smoke coming off your cigarette and filling the air. I don't know if that is worse for you than first hand smoke, but there is some evidence that second hand smoke contains a higher level of particulate because it is cumulative.
2007-03-21 17:25:33 · answer #5 · answered by united9198 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
seems to me it would be better since the non smoker is getting double filtered smoke. once through the cig. filter and then through the smokers lungs. anyway, its safer than drinking. why dont they stop the sale of alcohol again in the united states. drunks kill more than smokers do. glad i live in north carolina, the tobacco state.
2007-03-21 17:54:34 · answer #6 · answered by hammy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Second hand smoking is not worse than actually smoking. People who think that it is do not understand science.
2007-03-21 17:19:16 · answer #7 · answered by Laura H 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is worse for the non-smoker than the absence of smoke.
What you choose to do inside your body is up to you.
What other people are forced to endure in public is not.
2007-03-21 17:13:55 · answer #8 · answered by coragryph 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your breathing your smoke through a filter. the non smoker is not.
2007-03-21 17:19:05 · answer #9 · answered by bargod 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You get the double whammy..Smoking the nasty weed and then breathing back the noxious aftermath
2007-03-21 17:15:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋