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Quote by: adam10312  I just have a quick question- is second hand smoke more damaging to me than car exhaust (I live in New York City so there are cars and trucks EVERYWHERE)? I always smell truck exhaust.
If 2nd hand smoke is not significantly more dangerous than truck exhaust, then we cannot try to stop 2nd hand smoke in public but not stop vehicle exhaust in public.
I just want to put things in perspective. If I count how many times in a day I actually smell cigarette smoke and how many times I actually smell exhaust, cigarette smoke would be less times.
So I am just curious, is this a less important, equally important, or more important issue? Its importance is obviously directly linked to the proof of the level of danger for each. |
If you had a choice between staying in a closed garage with a car producing fumes, or a garage contianing 20 people smoking cigarettes, which garage would you pick?
Would you pick the garage with car fumes just because that smell would not "stick to your cloths" and tobacco smoke would? I doubt it.
The toxic contents of fosil fuel is much greater then the minor trace amounts found in 2nd hand smoke.
Plus, smoke is smoke and plant burning would be simular. So you would need to ban fireplaces, and some of the cooking establishments where fumes from viggies are present in the air. And pot smoking would also be a hazard as it produces smoke.
Now it would be best if people picked tobacco that grew wild in a organic envirnomment, and dried it out their self and then made their own cigarettes. Or if they grew their own to insure that what the smoke is totally organic with no other chemicals added. That would eliminate some of the things people might have a complaint about.
But most of us do not have the time nor the space in our yard to do that, so we buy them at a store.
The ban and/or regulations about fosils fuels has lost it's momentum because people are busy attacking cigarette smokers. What is in your garage? New York is like being in a gaint garage.
Now in order to package and sell tobacco they must maintain freshness, to do that certain chemicals must be added. Because no one wants to buy them if they are dry and not fresh. That is one reason they do not package and sell pot cigaretters, it is too hard to keep them fresh on the store shelf and therefore it is not economically practical to make it legal.
Now if they could make car fuel out of tobacco then that would be a good reason not to waste it away smoking the stuff. But pot has oil in it that would be useful for that purpose. (if it were legal).
If pot was legal a lot of people would switch to that instead of cigarettes.
(as many people did during the early 1970s).
Sorry that I added a bunch of comments not related to your actural question.
Fossil Fuels http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/outreach/...oints/bell.pdf