Why are smokers not affected by secondhand smoke?

Question

It's common knowledge that secondhand smoke is more lethal than direct smoke. Those who are exposed to secondhand smoke are more likely to suffer heart problems, stroke, etc than the actual smoking itself. But can't smokers be affected with the secondhand smoke they created?

Secondhand smoke, also know as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers.

The amount of carcinogen demethylnitrosamine in direct smoke is about 5.3 to 43 nanograms, while in second-hand smoke, there are about 680 - 823 nanograms.

Another toxin, quinoline, that is also found in smoke is 11 times greater in second-hand smoke, as compared to direct smoke. 18,000 nanograms of poison in difference.

Non-smokers can choose not to inhale, but smoke clings onto clothing, the hair, and even permeates itself through the human skin, right into the bloodstream. This results in non-smokers getting lung cancer is even faster than smokers.

My opinion is, if you want to die, please do. But don't kill the people around you.

Answer 1

Smokers are affected. Its actually more lethal to smoke than from second hand smoke. But second hand smoke is also unhealthy.

I don't know who told you second hand smoke is more lethal but they are very wrong.

Answer 2

no the smoker got it 1st hand. zzzz. no um seriously, i think with a smoker there is a ceratin amount of, for lack of a better term, layering in the lungs. now you take someone with fresh unscared lungs, especially someone who already has a lung ailment, (like say asthema), and possibly the smallest amount of a carcigen, (?), could be dangerous to them. some people may have no effects from second smoke, while some will. just as some smokers will live to be old and some will not. i don't think there is a clear cut model for all, (well excapt tobacco is bad for you).

i also think anyone that second hand smoke will have a negative effect on, would never ever be able to tolerate actually smoking. it would make them sick and they would get none of the "pleasure" a smoker gets. so the two, (a non smoker who is effected by 2nd and a smoker), are mutually exclusive

but make no mistake, the problems of 2nd hand smoke are way over-blown by legal eagles trying to sue any and everyone they can, AND politicos trying to act like they give a hoot by passing anti smoking rules.

conranger, um then where is the 2 to 3 dollar, (and more), a pack tax on cigs going if it's not to health costs? might wanna ask your local politico that one.....


im gonna try again: a person with a genetic predisposition to health problems caused by tobacco smoke would never be able to smoke. if they insisted on doing this they would soon be dead from tobacco related disease.

therefore the group of smokers, and the group of people negatively affected by second hand smoke, must be mutually exclusive.

so the effects of 2nd hand smoke on smokers is negligible.

Answer 3

Secondhand smoke was devised by the government in one report about 10 years ago as a way to get people to quit smoking. But there are other toxins much more lethal and in greater quantity such as:
Carbon Monoxide
Formaldehyde
Nitrogen Dioxide
Sulfur Dioxide

And from what??

Not cigarettes...

ITS FROM Cars, Trucks, and busses.

We breathe this stuff 24/7 every day!

why don't we ban them too?!

Answer 4

Who say smokers are not affected by second-hand smoke?

And its even nore common knowledge that passive smoking is dangerous to no smokers.

And the non-smoking tax-payer will have to pick up the medical bills for all the lung cancer patients out there.

Answer 5

Yeah but they are intentionally inhaling the "firsthand smoke", so in essence, they are smoking both.
But their lungs/cilia are already damaged from the firsthand smoke, so it is not as detrimental to them as it is to us non-smokes since, we don't fry our lungs/cilia purposely.

Did this make any sense??

Answer 6

Second hand smoke is not more lethal.

Answer 7

If someone farts while you're eating feces, it doesn't seem to bother you.