What are the effects of second hand smoke and how can I stop it?
i live in an apartment building and the people who live in the unit on top of mine are ALWAYS smoking and the smell travels to my unit 24-7. I cant even open my windows cause they also smoke in the balconies so instead of fresh air, it's all cigarette smoke. On weekends its always weed smoke. Is this dangerous and what should I do?
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Even though you don't like the smell of it, there is no scientific evidence that shows second hand smoke does anybody any harm.
There is some pretty hard scientific evidence that shows second hand smoke exposure is not necessarily related to the risk of getting cancer. See links below.
The crazy idea was rooted by the EPA who's study showed an INSIGNIFICANT link between second hand smoke exposure and cancer. Their study was also thrown out by a district judge for "Cherry picking" the data. However the CDC & Lung Association continue to use this "VOIDED" report and also like to over-exaggerate it as if anyone wouldn't notice.
Even with the EPAs "court VOIDED" study, the EPA fraud-ed report could only claim.
“Studies that support a CASUAL association between secondhand smoke and lung cancer.”
“the CHANCE of declaring these increases STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT was small.”
“EPA has never claimed that minimal exposure to secondhand smoke poses a huge individual cancer risk.”
http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/pubs/strsfs…
Some studies done about the effects of second hand smoke actually showed a decreased chance of getting cancer for those exposed to second hand smoke.
Below is a Consumer Reports analysis of the EPA study. You can see how easily they throw out the 6 studies, just because, "no one suggests passive smoking really reduces the risk."
"Of the remaining seven studies, one found no connection with lung-cancer rates. Six suggested that people exposed to secondhand smoke had lower rates of lung cancer, although no one suggests passive smoking really reduces the risk. "
http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artc…
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/…
“Conclusions The results do not support a causal relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality, although they do not rule out a small effect. The association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease and lung cancer may be considerably weaker than generally believed.”
http://www.cigarmony.com/downloads/smoki…
“Conclusions: Our results indicate no association between childhood exposure to ETS and lung cancer risk. We did find weak evidence of a dose–response relationship between risk of lung cancer and exposure to spousal and workplace ETS. There was no detectable risk after cessation
of exposure.[JNatlCancerInst1998;90:1440–50…
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/…
“No significant associations were found for current or former exposure to environmental tobacco smoke before or after adjusting for seven confounders and before or after excluding participants with pre-existing disease. No significant associations were found during the shorter follow up periods of 1960-5, 1966-72, 1973-85, and 1973-98.”
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