Second-hand smoke

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'''Second-hand smoke''' is tobacco smoke blown into the air by a [[tobacco smoking|smoker]] and inhaled, indirectly, by a non-smoker.

Although direct smoking is more harmful, the claim that second-hand smoke is not damaging is just complete [[bullshit]]. At the end of the day, what matters is the inhaling of smoke, which is what harms you, regardless of whether you're exposed to it actively or passively.

== Some people who say that second-hand smoke causes serious health problems ==

* The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)<ref>[http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol100E/mono100E-7.pdf IARC Monograph 100E]</ref>
*[http://www.who.int/tobacco/research/secondhand_smoke/about/en/ WHO] but what would they know, and '''who''' are they to know anything about it?
*The U.S. [[EPA]], as shown [http://www.epa.gov/region07/citizens/pdf/secondhand_smoke.pdf here], but they're a bunch of eco-nuts
*U.S. National Institutes of Health
*Centers for Disease Control
*United States Surgeon General
*U.S. National Cancer Institute
*American medical association
*American Heart Association, American Lung Association, and American Cancer Society
*American Academy of pediatrics
*[http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c1680 The BMJ] but they're in the pay of [[Big Pharma]]
*The [http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-09-307_en.htm European Commission Public Health Section ], and we all know where [[Hitler]] came from.
*The City of San Rafael, [[California]], even when it's [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/23/san-rafael-smoking-ban_n_4326768.html not second hand].
*The British Medical Association

== Some people who deny that second-hand smoke causes serious health problems ==

*The Tobacco Industry (although they internally acknowledge the risk)
*[[Frederick Seitz]]
*[[Michael Fumento]]
*[[S. Fred Singer]]
*[[Steve Milloy]]
*Some researchers at {{wpl|Stanford University||,}} via the [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/study-finds-no-clear-link-between-lung-cancer-and-secondhand-smoke-9004077.html Journal of the National Cancer Institute]
*[[Penn and Teller|Penn Jillette]], though he later [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s8yqj3EL7A admitted he was wrong]
*Adam Carolla
*Musician Joe Jackson (also argues that smoking in general is not really that harmful):
{{Cquote|[[Not as bad as|Higher cancer risks have been found in eating mushrooms, drinking milk, using mouthwash, wearing a bra, and keeping pet birds. Statistically, you are much more likely to die in a bicycle accident, or from being left-handed and using right-handed things, than from exposure to smoke]]. (I swear I’m not making this up!)<ref>Quoted from page 8 of http://web.archive.org/web/20080508022124/http://www.forestonline.org/files/pdf/JJ%20Essay%20web.pdf</ref>}}

He swears he's not making it up, so it ''must'' be true! And since bicycle accidents also kill people, there's not really a problem anyway?

In addition, it should be pointed out that wearing a bra does not cause cancer, although, to be on the safe side, it is recommended{{who}} that females (specifically those aged 18 to 40) do not wear any upper-body garments. You can never be too safe, right?

==External links==

* [http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/07/16/blowing-smoke-over-second-hand-smoke-1/ Blowing smoke over secondhand smoke] on the [[Respectful Insolence]] blog

*[https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-science-of-smoking-bans/ The science of public smoking bans] by [[Steven Novella]] on neurologica blog

==References==
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