Sara Robinson 1. The harmful effects of second hand smoke are...
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Sara Robinson 1. The harmful effects of second hand smoke are heavily exaggerated: "A large-scale study found no clear link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer, undercutting the premise of years of litigation including a Florida case that yielded a $350 million settlement. The article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute details a study of 76,000 women over more than a decade, which found the usual link between smoking and cancer. Lung cancer was 13 times more common in current smokers, and four times more common in former smokers, than in non-smokers. The study found no statistically significant relationship between lung cancer and exposure to passive smoke, however. Only among women who had lived with a smoker for 30 years or more was there a relationship that the researchers described as "borderline statistical significance."" https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2013/12/12/study-finds-no-link-between-secondhand-smoke-and-cancer/ 2. "My body, my choice." Even if secondhand smoke is harmful, it's my body, my choice. If I want to take a job that increases my risk of injury, who are you to tell me I can't? Many jobs require taking on an increased risk of death or injury: logging, commercial fishing, oil rigging, for example. Typically, such jobs pay more than "safe" office jobs. Many people prefer the money to safety. IMO, the best person to make such risk/reward tradeoffs is me, not some paternalistic government busybody.