Second hand smoke question.?
Question:
The most common retort that he uses is that some people from the 40s-70s were daily smokers and they haven't gotten lung cancer and that they would smoke around their children and they haven't gotten cacner either.
Thanks for you help. I am sick of going the rounds.
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haha seriously, you should leave your husband ~_~ if he can't even be considerate enough to do something like that, especially around yiour 2 year old child..
anyway.. read this
"Secondhand smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers. It is involuntarily inhaled by nonsmokers, lingers in the air hours after cigarettes have been extinguished and can cause or exacerbate a wide range of adverse health effects, including cancer, respiratory infections, and asthma."
http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvl...
you see that line? "lingers in the air hours after cigarettes have been extinguished" that's enough to make him realize ^_^
You don't have to be a smoker for smoking to harm you. You can also have health problems from breathing in other people's smoke. Secondhand smoke is the combination of smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette, cigar or pipe and the smoke exhaled by the smoker. Secondhand smoke contains more than 50 substances that can cause cancer. Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke include lung cancer, nasal sinus cancer, respiratory tract infections and heart disease.
There is no safe amount of secondhand smoke. Children, pregnant women, older people and people with heart or breathing problems should be especially careful.
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There is a lot of information on that site. I too smoke but think giving it up for your wife and children, who you should love much more than cigarettes, is acceptable.
My grandmother has a huge chunk of her leg missing because of second hand smoke from my grandfather. It was actuall smoke, though. He smoked at home.
The smell you are talking about is natural for smokers to have, but that doesn't count as second hand smoke to do any harm.
Hi, here's a link. Plus I think you should seriously consider leaving your husband as he is showing you no respect whatsoever.
http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?=dvlu...
From what I heard, second hand smoke is even worse than first hand, because there's no filter.
His retort about people who smoke not getting cancer is very nice, but cancer is (partially) hereditary, some people are more likely to get cancer than others. If your family has a history, than he should respect that, for the life of his child.
Try Googeling lung cancer and second hand smoke.
If you did find the evidence to back you up, what would he do about it? Would he quit smoking for the sake of your daughter? Would he take a shower and change clothes after every cigarette? I'm just curious. If he's a smoker and doesn't smoke around her...that's pretty good I think. Maybe he could get into the habit of only smoking outdoors and just wash his hands after wards. I'm a smoker with a two year old and that's what I do (I do smoke in my car when he's not in it). I'm not saying it's the absolute best, but I hope it helps.
My sense says that the smell of smoke could be counted as a very minute amount of second hand smoke. Have you ever been to a campfire? If you stand right in the smoke, it affects your lungs to the point of coughing sometimes. Now if you smell the clothes you were wearing while you did that you can still smell the smoke, but it won't affect your lungs like that. That's my opinion. Good luck and I hope you get the issue resolved.
http://sprojects.mmi.mcgill.ca/smoking/s...
here is a website you could show him
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