If you think that passive smoking in public places will kill you then try living where I did. Let me start by saying that I am a 44 year old smoker who has smoked since the age of 10. I served on British diesel submarines between 1980 and 1989. There were no smoking bans in place apart from the control room at periscope depth and at least 80% of the crew were smokers. So for months on end not only would I be smoking my 40 smokes a day I would partake in passive smoking from 57 other people. Then from 1990 to 1994 I served on Australian submarines but they would not let you smoke in the messes. When you are locked in a 300 foot tube with smokers well you work it out. As for my health last year I had a full medical including lung capacity test well here is the surprise I have the lungs of a 30 year old. I have never had a day off work due to illness I play golf at least 3 times a week and never get short on breath. So according to most answers from none smokers why am I still alive?
2007-08-10 13:59:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I would just like to see where "they" whoever it may be has published the actual tests that showed that second hand smoke was so toxic! I too am 44 years old, smoke, grew up in a household that burned coal for fuel and a houseful of people smoking, no problems yet, which according to all of the people screaming that second hand smoke kills is "rare or unusual" in some way. I want to see actual tests and results, not just a bunch of statistics that were taken by asking people if they had ever had an asthma attack in the presence of smoke! I have seen several of those and I am not convinced. I know too many smokers that have asthma that continue to smoke and never have an attack while smoking. Perfume seems to be a bigger trigger.
2007-08-10 21:52:50 · answer #1 · answered by sbyldy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Second hand smoke, and smoking can CONTRIBUTE to undermining people's health, different degrees different people. There may also be something in our DNA that combines with this ... some people more susceptible than others.
I have met people with ashma. I don't know what caused them to get that in the first place, but they literally cannot breathe when in the vicinity of second hand smoke.
Stress is also a cause of cancer.
Smoking helps relieve the stress.
My mother was a chain smoker. The whole family, myself included, harrassed her to stop smoking, because we believed the propaganda. It was only after she had managed to quit smoking that she discovered the cancer which killed her. I think the stress had a lot do do with it ... the stress that the smoking was supposed to relieve, and the stress of quiting smoking.
2007-08-10 14:20:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some people are more susceptible to the cancer causing effects of Smoking then others. My mum smoked for forty years and had no problems, Her husband did not smoke and after 10 years of passive smoking died of lung cancer caused by her smoke.
In his case the cancer was very aggressive and any smoke acted like a catalyst to promote its growth. Meanwhile she still smokes with no problem.
Are you willing to take the risk that you wont have the same problems.
2007-08-10 14:13:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are only 44 -- give it some time. If you keep it up it will work for you. You just gotta try a little harder.
My dad smoked from 13 - 70. He didn't start getting really sick until he was in his late 60s.
He died at 75.
2007-08-10 14:19:55 · answer #4 · answered by mj69catz 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes, if you breath in too much fumes from the car exhaust , it will kill you too. The carbon monoxide is too much. But driving a car doesn't mean the driver have to breath in the fumes. Surely a little will get into the body, but if there's not a excess of it, then its ok Hope it helps.
2016-04-01 10:36:52 · answer #5 · answered by Madeleine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Passive smoking does not directly kill a person but it only affects persons who have little resistance to its effects.
2007-08-10 14:06:39 · answer #6 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, smoking doesn't kill someone instantly.
Even over a period of time, you may not die.
Though smoking does a lot of damage, it can still take a long time to kill someone.
2007-08-10 14:10:10 · answer #7 · answered by xthapoochx 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
there's an exception to every rule not everyone is as lucky as you my dad cant walk from the living room to the bathroom without gasping for air
2007-08-10 14:16:33 · answer #8 · answered by kittypurplegirl 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because you were lied to along with the rest of us. processed food is the bigger killer
2007-08-10 14:06:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It does kill, just not reliably.
2007-08-10 14:14:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋