Passive Smoking Is Not A Health Risk.

[10ClarionSt]

In a few replies recently on this website, there has been the usual exaggerated hysteria about passive smoking. Passive smoking is not harmful to anyone. The proof of this is all around. It's called Baby Boomers. We are being told that we are the healthiest generation ever, and will live longer than any previous generation. 

We were born at a time when 82% of men, and 64% of women were smokers. Smoking was everywhere. At your grandparents; your aunt and uncles' house; your friends' house; the cinema; public transport, when hardly anyone had a car. At school, the teachers smoked in the canteen at break times. One teacher used to send me to the local shop to buy him 20 Sweet Afton and he smoked during lessons. Lots of mothers were smokers whilst carrying children through pregnancy. 

Then there was the rationing to contend with, which didn't end till 1954, whilst we were living in slums next to bombed out buildings from the war.

Then there was all the smogs of the early 50's, especially in London, but we are now told that we were the lucky generation. Ha ha!

Don't mis-understand. I am not advocating smoking. I don't smoke but the hysteria about passive smoking is ridiculous. I know it's not pleasant and we'll get all the usual replies about peoples' clothes smelling of smoke etc., and someones' mum or dad had problems because of passive smoking, but it wasn't the passive smoke that was the problem. It was allergies. Yep, allergies. And, no-one has ever been certified as dying because of passive smoke from cigarettes. I can see all the eyes rolling and the hear all the howls but when you've been brainwashed by the meeja for years, I wouldn't expect anything else. 

It's alcohol, drugs and gambling that cause all the problems in this country, not smoking or passive smoking. 

Time for brekky. Full English. Yummy!

[barry1010]

My parents smoked - mom smoked 30 to 40 a day and dad was a real puffing billy with his pipe.  We watched tv through a fug and the living room window was always sticky on the inside. I suffered dreadful bouts of bronchitis and chest infections as a child.

I smoked and developed asthma.  My brother had been a rabid anti-smoker since his school days and never smoked  nor did his wife.  He worked in a clean environment.  He now has very severe emphysema and is on oxygen.  A result of passive smoking?  Who knows.  

[davebro3]

Yes it is. As a child both my parents smoked (until my dad died of lung cancer) & I had repeated chest infections for years including brochial pneumonia - I was in bed for 3 weeks and nearly died.

As mentioned previously Roy Castle got lung cancer from passive smoking.

Yes - other abuses DO cause problems but that's not a reason to exonerate smoking.

[davebro3]

BTW - what "hysteria"? I haven't seen passive smoking mentioned in the media for years. Do you have a link?

[youngmafbog]

What rot. 

[bhg481]

Roy Castle always blamed his lung cancer on passive smoking but there's no way you can be sure of the cause. Cancers can be spontaneous.

[barry1010]

Even pets can suffer 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/565981/Dog-dies-terminal-lung-cancer-passive-smoking-animal-health

[rowanwitch]

I have cared for too many lung cancer patients who never smoked but whose workplaces were mostly full of smokers to think anything but passive smoking was it not the whole cause  definitely a large contributing factor.  Main areas of employment were offices ( sales especially), bars and bookies places where you used to walk into a cloud of smoke as soon as you opened the door

[BoxAngle]

It may not be harmful but it's an awful smell, why must non smokers endure that?

[Old_Geezer]

Getting away with stuff, especially when victims aren't here to tell their tale, or finding other improvements compensate for such failings, does not make those failings less risky.

[nicebloke1]

And now they are complaining about vaping??

[Old_Geezer]

Surely your brekkie ought to be 20 non-filter and a strong caffeinated coffee ?

[gulliver1]

OP "Passive Smoking is not a health risk "?...... But voting Tory is.!

[ichkeria]

Typical trolling post, which always seems to end with the breakfast thing.

[davebro3]

OP - can you answer my 7.55 question?

[fiveleaves]

I am old enough to remember foggy pubs, ashtrays in buses etc.

One job I had involved doing sleep ins in what was also during the day the staff smoking room. I failed one interview as I was a non smoker and there were two pipe smokers.

Do i want those days back? No i dont. Time our society moved on from smoking

[nicebloke1]

It maybe time to move on from many things, but many don't want to. What most want is for sure is a fee country.

[nicebloke1]

Free^

[Old_Geezer]

Preferably a smoke free country.

[10ClarionSt]

Thanks for the replies folks. I don't go with any of it. The Roy Castle thing is just guesswork and supposition. Millions of people worked in, and used, those places. He was, sort of, famous; he said it, so it must be true. The hysteria is obvious in these responses. No-one has replied to anything in the OP. Passive smoking causes hysteria, not illnesses.

[davebro3]

So still no proof on the "hysteria" claim.