The smoking debate

[Weltall]

His claims are totally unsupported by science. Of course, that's nothing new for him. He just wants yet more of his crazed minority will imposed upon everyone... something he always accuses me of yet is constantly guilty of it himself.

I mean, the idea that your first drag on a cigarette causes immediate and irrevocable harm to your body is so asanine that only ABF would claim it.

Now I added the word irrevocable, even though he didn't say it. Because, if it isn't permanent, then it isn't even close to being relevant.

I mean, if you can show me some case of lung cancer that was shown to be a direct result of secondhand smoke inhalation, from a credible source, then perhaps things may be different. Hell, since you claim secondhand smoke to be, in your own words, a "major public health hazard", you would think that there would be loads of publicized cases of this, and yet you never hear of any.

Now I'm not claiming secondhand smoke is safe, but the only way it's going to do any harm to you is if you're exposed to it constantly for many, many years. Claiming that it's an immediate threat to national health is nothing less than pure absurdity or stupid hyperbole.