Two shocking statements with merit. Too often the anti-smoking crowd rushes to conclusions in a zealous effort to help those addicted to cigarettes. The history of mankind indicates a lack of smoke is affecting the obsessed anti-smokers in some weird and unknown manner.
Scientists study what makes man different from animals.
They come up with theories ranging from a prehensile thumb to a large brain. In all cases, scientists point to man's relationship with fire as making a marked difference between humanness and being an animal. Fire means smoke, and for a million years mankind has slowly evolved from smoke-filled cave dwellings to huts and homes reeking of smoke. For a million years, and in all places, man has lived with and breathed second-hand smoke. Only in the past fifty years, in western industrialized societies, have electric ranges and modern heating removed the necessity of breathing smoke.