The smoking debate

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.ymn.org/newstats/secondhand.shtml

http://www.wellman.org.au/smoking.html

http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/0/f52d604...enDocument

http://www.lungusa.org/tobacco/smoking_factsheet99.html

http://dmoz.org/Health/Addictions/Substa...lth_Risks/

http://epw.senate.gov/~epw/105th/munzer.htm

http://www.oehha.org/air/environmental_t...alets.html

This is just grabbing a few of the first results when searching for this in Yahoo.

You people are idiots if you think that secondhand smoke doesn't hurt you.

http://www.no-smoking.org/july01/07-03-01-1.html

http://www.adf.org.au/drughit/facts/cignet.html

Note these parts.

Immediate effects

# smoking one cigarette immediately raises a person's blood pressure and heart rate and decreases the blood flow to body extremities like the fingers and toes;
# brain and the nervous system activity is stimulated for a short time and then reduced;
# a smoker may also experience dizziness, nausea, watery eyes and acid in the stomach; and
# appetite, taste and smell are weakened.top

# passive smoking, where a person is subject to breathing in the cigarette smoke of others, can cause lung damage, including cancer and heart disease;

Also, you are addicted after smoking for just a few weeks.

http://www.umassmed.edu/pap/news/2002/08_29_02.cfm

WORCESTER, Mass.-A startling new study published today in the international journal Tobacco Control shows that kids typically get hooked on nicotine with alarming speed and at levels of tobacco use that are so low that few researchers had even considered addiction possible.

Because adults who are hooked on nicotine generally smoke at least ten cigarettes every day, scientists have always assumed that a person could not become hooked until he or she smoked at least that much. It usually takes a few years for young smokers to progress to smoking ten cigarettes per day so it was also assumed that nicotine dependence was very slow to develop. The study, however, indicated that just the opposite is true: kids get hooked more quickly while smoking much less.

The study showed that for the teenage girls who got hooked, it took only an average of three weeks from when they started to smoke occasionally. Among the boys who got hooked, half were hooked within six months of the start of occasional smoking. "Some of these kids were hooked within a few days of starting to smoke," reported Dr. DiFranza. "We are unable to explain why girls get hooked faster but we have begun a new study sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to explore the differences between the sexes."

I'd have more, but spending more than 5 or 10 minuites on this would be pointless.