Reply #110: That's just one study and you are taking it out of context. I would point you [View All]

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to what the National Cancer Institute has to say about it.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/ETS

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. National Toxicology Program, the U.S. Surgeon General, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer have all classified secondhand smoke as a known human carcinogen (a cancer-causing agent.)

Inhaling secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmoking adults. Approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths occur each year among adult nonsmokers in the United States as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke. The U.S. Surgeon General estimates that living with a smoker increases a nonsmoker’s chances of developing lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent.

But even if it didn't cause cancer, which it does, I still shouldn't have to be exposed to nasty smelling tobacco smoke that gets all over my clothes and makes me feel sick to my stomach. If I am forced to associate with a client who smokes, the first thing my wife says to me when I get home is that she can smell cigarette smoke on me.