Second hand smoke dangers are a myth

[SanPellegrino]

Originally posted by Dumb pothead
Marla, when I first started going online I used to think I was the only person in the world who smokes. Online everybody pretends to be into mountain climbing, they jog 10 miles a day, dont eat meat, have no bad habits at all and they help little old ladies cross the street in their spare time Meanwhile, in real life, I know nobody like that!

At least now I know who here in OT I can ask for cigarettes when I run out

exactly what I felt. I don't smoke btw, I am in the process of quitting since 10 years.

 

[stratego]

1) Maybe it's because your cat have small nostrils

2) Pot can also lower sperm counts. Has your cat have kids?

There's a lot of myths around that may have linger around from the movie "Reefer Madness." It was a very effective anti-pot film, but the claims they made were without evidence.

 

[SanPellegrino]

Originally posted by stratego

There's a lot of myths around that may have linger around from the movie "Reefer Madness." It was a very effective anti-pot film, but the claims they made were without evidence.

what an understatement

 

[EdwardTking]

Actually "Dumb Pothead" your cat has already died eight times.
Four times of lung cancer, twice of heart attack, twice of athma.

But you are such a wonderful guy, and everybody knows how much you love your cat, so each time your very dearest friends bought you a replacement cat of the same breed, sex and size and crash converted it to look like your old moggy. If you wern't so stoned, you might have noticed the different shaped ears!

But they won't do it again. This is because the hair stylist has become bored with permanently dying the fur to the same pattern each time it moults; the pet shop owner thinks your friends are buying identical cats as part of some profame satanic ritual. Their general concensus is that Nine Lives is enough for a cat.

So next time your cat dies, it stays dead.

 

[Maj]

The autopsy should answer all questions.

 

[cgannon64]

Originally posted by stratego
2) Pot can also lower sperm counts. Has your cat have kids?

Does pot second-hand smoke have any effect?

*Reconsiders not hanging out a certain kids house*

 

[Caranamrta]

Your cat, DP, as he/she has hair on its entire body, has a relatively much greater surface than a human. The great surface absorbs many smoke, and only an insignificant quantity can reach the cat's air intake system. The hair is continuously replaced with new hair, so the absorbed smoke can't cause skin cancer either.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Originally posted by stratego
2) Pot can also lower sperm counts.

One sec...be right with you...ok (walks over to the microscope). Lets see...1...2...3...4...5! Ha! Thats two more than I had last week! Another myth shot to hell! (does the high sperm count dance) [dance]

Lots of interesting theories as to why the furball lives. Thats a good one Caranamrta, Edward the Kings is good too

 

[IglooDame]

Originally posted by Achinz
If we can have a pro-life movement why not a Pro-Death one?


Signs to the effect, "We thank you for not smoking" have proliferated in households here. If one is signs-challenged, what would be the most polite way to convey your abomination to smoking? I'd probably put out a story about my cat being asthmatic to second hand smoke.

We have a Pro-death movement in the US, it's called doctor-assisted suicide. If we ever decide to wrap ourselves in a universal healthcare system then I'm sure they'll turn around and ban smoking, drinking, and overeating for the good of society.

I do not permit smoking in my home and frankly I'd consider it rude for someone to light up without asking, but the Ban-Smoking-Everywhere craze is just another goofy populist crusade that infringes on liberty but allows politicians to pat themselves on the back...

 

[Bozo Erectus]

I would never dream of lighting a cigarette in someone elses home without asking if it was ok first, if the person was a non smoker. I think thats true of most smokers these days. Recently an acquiantance who isnt a smoker told me to go ahead and light a cig in his car if I felt like it, he didnt care. I was going, to, then I couldnt do it. The relentless, nonstop propaganda has reprogrammed me completely. Im old enough to remember when people smoked on buses, and in movie theaters

 

[Double Barrel]

Originally posted by stratego
Pot can also lower sperm counts.

Yeah, I tend to believe that this one has been overblown a bit, too. At least 95% of tokers that I know have kids...with over 50% of those with multiple kids.

On a semi-related note, it has been discovered that McDonald's french fries can lower sperm counts if eaten to the point of obesity.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Good one DB, lets give people eating fries dirty looks, and make them eat their fries on the street, because the smell of the fries annoys us

 

[Inter4]

Originally posted by Dumb pothead
Marla, when I first started going online I used to think I was the only person in the world who smokes. Online everybody pretends to be into mountain climbing, they jog 10 miles a day, dont eat meat, have no bad habits at all and they help little old ladies cross the street in their spare time Meanwhile, in real life, I know nobody like that!

Yeah..and everyone has a perfect athletic body and is able to lift 200 Kgs..

 

[Knowze Gungk]

So that's why my chatroom pickup line of "Any sexy ladies wanna talk dirty with a fugly hunchback couch potato, with really bad breath? PM me." dosn't work. There's just too many beautiful people online.


On topic. Smoked for around Ten years, then one day I stopped. No cravings, no withdrawal, no problem. Twas as easy as flicking a butt & throwing the remainder of the pouch into the lap of a bum.

I reckon that most people find it so hard to quit, because they are told how hard it is over & over & over again, and most people believe any old rubbish, when constantly repeated with conviction. Smoking's kinda like religion in that respect.

(EDIT: this was actually ment for the "Do you smoke cigarettes ?" thread, but I'm too lazy to change it)

 

[Goober]

Second hand smoke is worse, because it is unfiltered, and the smoke you inhale into your body is slightly filtered. So, actually, if you breath in second hand smoke all day long, having never smoked in your life, you have a better chance of getting cancer, etc. then someone who chain-smoked all his life. No, the title of this thread is completely, absolutely dead wrong. I can find dozens of links to prove this, but it is not necessary . . .

Personally, I see doing drugs such as this just plain stupid. There are better ways to get high, and cigarettes are just chock-full of nasty chemicals, etc. No, there are better ways to get high, get the nicotine. Also, they are costly. It seems so silly when I see impoverished people buying cigarettes, when taht money could go to so many other, better places . . .

 

[superslug]

Originally posted by RealGoober
Second hand smoke is worse, because it is unfiltered, and the smoke you inhale into your body is slightly filtered.

Liter per liter, second hand smoke is worse. But, all first hand smoke goes into the smokers lungs. Second hand smoke goes into an entire room and gets inhaled in much smaller quantities, which makes it diluted.

In actuality then, second hand smoke is much less dangerous than first hand. If it were truly more dangerous, it would be the smokers living longer...