Smoking Vs. Secondhand Smoke?

Question

My roommate is a smoker. I am thinking of smoking myself, but everyone keeps telling me how bad it is. But isn't secondhand smoke worse than actually smoking? Since I'm already in a smoke-filled enviornment, what is the harm in actually smoking?

Answer 1

gr8 go ahead smoke and get a life time sickness offer free

Answer 2

If you start smoking, you will regret it every day for the rest of your life and you will someday be trying so very hard to quit because you will be tired of smelling horrible, feeling bad, having bad breath, spending money to poison yourself, being stressed whenever you run out of smokes, etc etc. I speak from experience. And no no no, second hand smoke is not as bad - don't fall for that! Logic tells you that if you smoke you are getting both first hand and second hand smoke which is much worse than just second hand smoke. I am quitting and I regret like I can't even express that I ever started. My advice to you is get a different roommate or ask your roommate to smoke outside. You may be desensitized to the smell, but believe me, your clothes and hair probably reek of that old smoke smell just from being in the house with it. Even I (dedicated nicotine addict that I am) do NOT smoke in the house. It's too filthy and disgusting. Anyway, if I could go back in time I NEVER would have started. IT really does absolutely nothing good for you at all.

Answer 3

Yes secondhand smoking is worse than first hand smoking, because you aren't getting it through a filter. But you are only getting second hand smoke when you are around your roommate, if you start smoking you will get first hand smoke every time you light up, then it isn't easy to quit because you become addicted the nicotine, it's just best not to get started.

Answer 4

The effects of secondhand smoke exposure are grossly exaggerated. Despite claims by the American Heart Association, American Lung Association, and other health organizations and anti-smoking nazis that thousands upon thousands of people die each year from secondhand smoke, they are unable to name even one single person who has died from it.

Answer 5

Yes, 2nd hand smoke is worse than smoking but why don't you ask your room mate to smoke outside because it is your right to have clean air in the place you live. Smoking is a bad idea! If I were you I would think twice about taking up such a nasty/expensive habit.

Answer 6

2ndhand smoke is bad too, no question - but that's like saying, "well, I'm already stuck in a burning building, I might as well pour gasoline on myself". You'll eventually move out, but if you start smoking, you'll be addicted yourself by then. Not to mention the time you are there you'll be getting twice as much smoke inhilation.

Answer 7

THE SMOKE YOU PUFF IS MUCH MORE DAMAGING THAN SECONDHAND SMOKE, BUT BOTH CAUSE SERIOUS DAMAGE
MOVE TO A SMOKE FREE ENVIRONMENT IF YOU WANT TO LIVE HEALTHIER AND LONGER.

Answer 8

------------- 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

Answer 9

yes, it is because you inhale smoke that others inhale. My Mom had a stroke due to second hand smoke..

Answer 10

stupid question