Susan Estrich: Kiss Those Kiddie-Flavored Cigarettes Goodbye

» harleyrider1978 on 09.29.09 @ 04:25 AM

SECOND HAND SMOKE IS A JOKE. Ask the anti-tobacco folks to tell you what truly is in second hand smoke…when it burns from the coal its oxygenated and everything is burned and turned into water vapor…...............thats right water….......you ever burned leaves in the fall…know how the heavy smoke bellows off…....thats the organic material releasing the moisture in the leaves the greener the leaves/organic material the more smoke thats made…...thats why second hand smoke is classified as a class 3 irritant by osha and epa as of 2006….....after that time EPA decided to change the listing of shs as a carcinogen for political reasons…....because it contained a trace amount of 6 chemicals so small even sophisticated scientific equipment can hardly detect it ........they didnt however use the normal dose makes the poison computation when they made this political decision.
However osha still maintains shs/ets as an irritant only and maintains the dose makes the poison position…....as osha is in charge of indoor air quality its decisions are based on science not political agendas as epa’s is. We can see this is true after a federal judge threw out the epa’s study on shs as junk science…......

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
British Medical Journal & WHO conclude secondhand smoke “health hazard” claims are greatly exaggerated

The BMJ published report at:

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7398/1057

concludes that “The results do not support a causal relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality. The association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease and lung cancer are considerably weaker than generally believed.”

What makes this study so significant is that it took place over a 39 year period, and studied the results of non-smokers who lived with smokers….. meaning these non-smokers were exposed to secondhand smoke up to 24 hours per day; 365 days per year for 39 years. And there was still no relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality.

In light of the damage to business, jobs, and the economy from smoking bans the BMJ report should be revisited by lawmakers as a reference tool and justification to repeal the now unnecessary and very damaging smoking ban laws.

Also significant is the World Health Organization (WHO) study:

Passive smoking doesn’t cause cancer-official
By Victoria Macdonald, Health Correspondent

” The results are consistent with their being no additional risk for a person living or working with a smoker and could be consistent with passive smoke having a protective effect against lung cancer. The summary, seen by The Telegraph, also states: ‘There was no association between lung cancer risk and ETS exposure during childhood.’ “

And if lawmakers need additional real world data to further highlight the need to eliminate these onerous and arbitrary laws, air quality testing by Johns Hopkins University proves that secondhand smoke is up to 25,000 times SAFER than occupational (OSHA) workplace regulations.

The Chemistry of Secondary Smoke
About 94% of secondary smoke is composed of water vapor and ordinary air with a slight excess of carbon dioxide. Another 3 % is carbon monoxide. The last 3 % contains the rest of the 4,000 or so chemicals supposedly to be found in smoke… but found, obviously, in very small quantities if at all.This is because most of the assumed chemicals have never actually been found in secondhand smoke. (1989 Report of the Surgeon General p. 80).

Most of these chemicals can only be found in quantities measured in nanograms, picograms and femtograms. Many cannot even be detected in these amounts: their presence is simply theorized rather than measured. To bring those quantities into a real world perspective, take a saltshaker and shake out a few grains of salt. A single grain of that salt will weigh in the ballpark of 100 million picograms! (Allen Blackman. Chemistry Magazine 10/08/01).

- (Excerpted from “Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains” with permission of the author.)

The Myth of the Smoking Ban ‘Miracle’
Restrictions on smoking around the world are claimed to have had a dramatic effect on heart attack rates. It’s not true. http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7451/

As for secondhand smoke in the air, OSHA has stated outright that:

“Field studies of environmental tobacco smoke indicate that under normal conditions, the components in tobacco smoke are diluted below existing Permissible Exposure Levels (PELS.) as referenced in the Air Contaminant Standard (29 CFR 1910.1000)...It would be very rare to find a workplace with so much smoking that any individual PEL would be exceeded.”
-Letter From Greg Watchman, Acting Sec’y, OSHA, To Leroy J Pletten, PHD, July 8, 1997

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» Binky on 09.29.09 @ 07:20 AM

Side effects
[edit] Muscle Control

Two unpleasant symptoms noticed by new users and by existing users who make excessive use of nicotine gum are hiccups[1] and a perceived constriction of the throat muscles, as accidental swallowing of saliva containing high amounts of nicotine may cause irritation.
[edit] Gum Disease

Another potential side effect of prolonged nicotine gum use is gum disease. Nicotine constricts blood vessels, including those of the gums, which has led to speculation that long-term use of nicotine gum may contribute to risk for gum disease. However, one clinical study has found no connection between 15 weeks of nicotine gum use and oral health[2].
[edit] Hair Loss

In one survey of nicotine gum users, approximately one-third of respondants reported hair loss (and it is not gender discriminatory). Women in their 40s and men in their 20s have reported hair loss.[3] The most likely explanation is that nicotine is a vasoconstrictor, and decreases blood flow throughout a person’s body.
[edit] Birth defects

Women who use nicotine gum and patches during the early stages of pregnancy face an increased risk of having babies with birth defects, says a study that looked at about 77,000 pregnant women in Denmark. The study found that women who use nicotine-replacement therapy in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy have a 60 percent greater risk of having babies with birth defects, compared to women who are non-smokers, the Daily Mail reported. The findings were published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_gum#Side_effects

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» Long Time Resident on 09.29.09 @ 02:53 PM

Interesting article. Did anyone else see, and enjoy, “Thank You for Smoking” as much as we did? Created by a local, south coast resident, too.

Everyone’s known that smoking is “bad” for you since at least the Roaring Twenties.

But even in a corrupt world, it was still shocking to realize that Big Tobacco had cut
a deal with FDR’s people during WW II to provide “free” cigarettes to all the troops in
uniform.

Shocking, since Big Tobacco’s scientists had already warned their bosses that it was very addictive. And the reply memos indicate that that was exactly what Big Tobacco was hoping for.

All those young men, most away from home for the first time, scared and lonely,
and wanting to fit in, getting free death sticks whenever they wanted.

Until, of course, the War was over, and a gigantic new generation of addicts had to start paying retail rate for them, And start dying from lung cancer, emphysema,
asthma, and second-hand smoke.

Time to break the chain of death, isn’t it?

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» marbee on 09.29.09 @ 06:37 PM

If the paranoia of the threat from smoke were real we certainly wouldn’t have any firefighters, or meat-smokers, or wood heater manufacturers, or
bar-b-que eateries, or .... and the list goes on!  Get real people!  How can anyone believe this second hand smoke propoganda?  Those creating it could convince you the world is once again flat.  How on earth did people
survive to this point when they had to use fire to live!

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