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Here's an interesting article: This Doctor says that second hand smoke does not kill, complete with references.
The Myth of Second Hand Smoke

Pen and Teller even did an episode on second hand smoke:


"Not one study, anywhere, offers conclusive proof that breathing in second hand smoke causes cancer. Not one."
(Link to the EPA study claiming that second hand smoke is a carcinogen that was debunked: http://www.tobaccocontrol.neu.edu/TC...a_nutshell.htm)

Here's a WebMD article:

"We found no measurable effect from being exposed to secondhand smoke and an increased risk of heart disease or lung cancer in nonsmokers -- not at any time or at any level," lead researcher James Enstrom, PhD, MPH, of the UCLA School of Public Health, tells WebMD. "The only thing we did find, which was not reported in the study, is that nonsmokers who live with smokers have a increased risk of widowhood because their smoking spouses do die prematurely."

Secondhand Smoke Study Raises Ire

Here's a study from 1998:

Conclusions: Our results indicate no association
between childhood exposure to ETS and lung cancer risk.
We did find weak evidence of a dose–response relationship
between risk of lung cancer and exposure to spousal and
workplace ETS. There was no detectable risk after cessation
of exposure. [J Natl Cancer Inst 1998;90:1440–50]

http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/r...90/19/1440.pdf

Here's someone's analysis of many articles: Secondhand Smoke Studies: The Hype and The Deceit


I've never smoked in my life and I never will. I do not like the smell of smoke. I do not like being around smoke.
Still, I have no right to tell people they can not smoke. If I do not like the smoke in a place, I will not go there.

We have no right to stick a gun in a bar owner's face and tell them that they are not allowed to have people smoke in their business.

Just be honest. If you do not like second hand smoke, just say so. You do not have to blindly believe that it is giving you cancer so you get to tell other people what to do. I'd rather that no one smoked, but it's not up to me. We live in a free country and I do not have the right to demand other people stop doing something just because I do not like it, and neither do you.