If I had a pound for every chemical found in the second hand smoke
I'd be happy.
******************************** Non-smokers who breathe in secondhand smoke are at risk of the same diseases as smokers, including cancer and heart disease!
Secondhand smoke contains 4,000 toxic chemicals and it is estimated
that it causes thousands of deaths each year. Children are particularly
affected by secondhand smoke because their bodies are still developing.
But around half of all British children are growing up in homes where
at least one parent is a smoker. ******************************** I grew up in a house where smoke was always present and I was constantly ill with Asthma. Since leaving home, my Asthma has been much improved but I still suffer and cannot now spend any time near smokers. It's amongst the top things that will set off another attack. I gave a lift to a work colleage the other day and he'd been smoking while waiting for the lift. My car reeked the moment he got in. I can smell smoke on the breath of people for up to ten feet away when they enter the room after lunch breaks and the smell of ashtrays is the most foul thing I can think of. What also baffles me is why it's illegal to smoke under the age of 16, yet children as young as 11 will stand outside highschool smoking publicly, knowing that because they are under 18, there is nothing the police can to do touch them. This is about as useful as your law on not putting ice cream in your back pocket and might as well be filed under the book of rediculous laws along with Oliver Cromwell's one about not being allowed to eat Christmas Pudding on Christmas Day!
My argument against smokers is that I have to pay regular medical bills for all my tablets and inhalers just to be able to breathe the air that other people get for free. There - I got that off my chest now :-D Can you do the same with the smoke?
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