On 6/8/2016 5:52 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 00:25:16 -0500, Muggles
wrote:

On 6/7/2016 12:57 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 12:42:00 -0500, notX
wrote:

On 06/05/2016 07:02 PM, Muggles wrote:

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Not dangerous?? How do you know 10 times that amount isn't in a puff of
secondhand smoke?

Still the "one instance" fallacy? As if "one puff" is all there is.

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The preeminent safety organization in the government sets daily limits
for toxins and the concentrations in second hand smoke does not even
bump the needle. I gave the example of Chlorine, one of the deadliest
war gasses ever unleashed on mankind yet getting a little whiff when
you pour bleach into your washer is harmless and they put it in your
drinking water. Typical municipal water runs about 3ppm chlorine and
that is far higher than any of the toxins in cigarette smoke. How many
thousands of gallons of water do you use in a year?


Even one puff of tobacco harmful, reports surgeon general

he 704-page report, the 30th surgeon general's report to address
tobacco, "validates earlier findings, expands and strengthens the
science base, and describes in great detail the multiple ways that
tobacco smoke damages every organ in the body, resulting in disease and
death," according to its executive summary.

Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals and compounds,
including hundreds that are toxic and at least 70 that cause cancer,
according to the report. That means there is no "risk-free level of
exposure" to tobacco smoke. *Even a whiff of tobacco smoke* can
adversely affect the body, the report concludes.

"The chemicals in tobacco smoke reach your lungs quickly every time you
inhale, causing damage immediately," Surgeon General Regina Benjamin
said in a statement. "*Inhaling even the smallest amount of tobacco
smoke can also damage your DNA*, which can lead to cancer."

The lining of the lungs becomes inflamed as soon as it is exposed to
cigarette smoke, and, over time, the smoke can cause chronic lung
diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis, according to the
report. *Even brief exposure to secondhand smoke can cause heart disease
and can trigger heart attacks*. Chemicals in tobacco smoke quickly
damage blood vessels and make blood more likely to clot, increasing the
risk for heart attacks, strokes and aneurysms.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...120905910.html


That sounds more like opinion than science.
If this was true ...
"Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals and compounds,
including hundreds that are toxic and at least 70 that cause cancer,
according to the report. That means there is no "risk-free level of
exposure" to tobacco smoke."

... It would not be safe to leave the oxygen tent because most of
those chemicals are present from other sources every day.
If you believe this bull****, maybe we should be talking about the
chemicals in a milk bottle.,

Bear in mind the SG is not a scientist, she is a political appointee



I also posted a second article that is a study with 26 extensive
references. Why'd you ignore it? This website contains studies related
to this topic, too. I'll post another one - see other post.


Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Research
The Effect of a Single Cigarette Puff on Air Flow in the Lungs.

A puff of cigarette is estimated to contain 1016 oxidants. The degree of
smoking or smoke exposure can be ascertained by measuring the serum
levels of continine (a metabolite of nicotine)

Inhalation of cigarette puff has an immediate effect on respiration by
increasing airway resistance and therefore reducing the amount of oxygen
absorbed into the body.4

The present study was designed to examine the effect of cigarette puff
on lung function. It is unique in that it focuses on the acute response
to a single puff of cigarette smoker.

http://www.bioline.org.br/request?jm07001

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, PEFR was reduced after a puff of cigarette. Smoking
status influenced the PEFR value as smokers had substantially lower
values at the outset of the study. It is well known that from a puff of
cigarette, smokers move to a stick and then from sticks to addiction and
so the effects accumulate. The effect of tobacco smoking can be
deleterious. If a single puff increases airway resistance and reduces
PEFR, chronic smoking is bound to do much damage to the lungs.

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