If secondhand smoke indoors is so dangerous why haven't they outlawed fireplaces?

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• In fact wood does have tar and nicotine in its smoke. There is nothing especially dangerous about tobacco that you can't find in the burning of any other kind of plant.

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  by Anonymous on November 21st, 2009

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• Don't worry, they will. New York has already banned trans fat in its restaurants. Try going to a bar to get wasted. Now the bartender gets into legal trouble if they overserve you.

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  by Anonymous on November 21st, 2009

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• It is in any public building where I live(Minnesota).
  "most of the smoke leaves the building." But they must produce at least 100 times as much smoke as a cigarette. They better be 99% efficient.
  Smoking indoors used to be commonplace, too. Better start drinking that chocolate milk before it's too late.

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  by Anonymous on November 21st, 2009

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• I think it has a lot more to do with the politics involved.

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  by Anonymous on November 21st, 2009

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• hahaha

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  by WilAtHart is DONE on November 21st, 2009

• LOL half-thoughts can still lead to full questions...

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  by ACCOUNT CLOSED on November 21st, 2009

• this is true

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  by WilAtHart is DONE on November 21st, 2009

• Oh yeah, and that sucks out all the smoke. So if a smoker smokes under a chimney would it be OK? Half thoughts can lead to full answers, too.

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  by Anonymous on November 21st, 2009

• Smoking isn't illegal in one's home in the first place - Your question is based on a non-fact!
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  If you encounter an establishment where indoor smoking is illegal, that is for the health and convenience of OTHER people in that establishment. Other customers in a restaurant shouldn't have to inhale your toxic mess.
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  But you can go right ahead and smoke in your own home.

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  by ACCOUNT CLOSED on November 21st, 2009

• Don't restaurants have grills that are not under chimneys? Better stay away from them or you will die.

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  by Anonymous on November 21st, 2009

• are you for real?

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  by WilAtHart is DONE on November 21st, 2009

• @James: Actually, restaurants must have proper ventilation. If a grill isn't directly under a vent, you can bet there is some other form of ventilation, such as open windows or ceiling fans feeding smoke into vents around the kitchen.
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  Seriously, STOP trying to push this nonsensical issue. You lost as soon as you began.

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  by ACCOUNT CLOSED on November 22nd, 2009

• 'i flag, you flag, we all flag for nonsense..'

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  by WilAtHart is DONE on November 22nd, 2009

• Ok, if I smoke under a vent would that be alright? I notice that you want to drop the question. It's easy for anyone to see why you would. Because you're losing the argument.

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  by Anonymous on November 22nd, 2009

• why would you be smoking? if second hand smoke kills people, dont you think that smoking itself will be killing you? you dont seem to be thinking this all the way through, and you seem threatened by the fact that we are indeed pointing out your argument flaws. but that is okay, you will learn in time! =]

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  by WilAtHart is DONE on November 22nd, 2009

• Maybe second hand smoke is not dangerous. That this is propaganda and you're falling for it. You still won't answer the question of if it's all right to smoke indoors if a chimney or vent is used. You avoid answering this more than you avoid second hand smoke.

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  by Anonymous on November 22nd, 2009

• second hand smoke has been proven to be dangerous, which is why most public buildings do not allow smoking in buildings anymore. and i already answered - if you are mostly concerned with the people around you, then im sure a chimney will reduce the effects. however, while you are smoking under a vent to prevent sickness to others, you are getting yourself sick just as much as they are.

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  by WilAtHart is DONE on November 22nd, 2009

• Jeez, do you speak English or what? The question, your follow-up comments, they're ALL nonsense.
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  "if I smoke under a vent would that be alright?" - What do you mean "alright"? You mean legally speaking? Or health-wise? What?
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  Legally, if it is illegal to smoke inside an establishment, that is a crystal-clear designation that requires NO further explanation - NO SMOKING INSIDE, regardless of your spatial position inside the building.
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  As for second-hand smoke not being harmful...you are officially the most moronic tool I have come across in a long time. Did you just wake up out of a brain-freeze from 1940, when everyone still thought it was all cool and harmless?
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  http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-06-27-involuntary-smoking_x.htm
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3201777.stm
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2053840.stm
  http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/second-hand-smoke-children
  http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/ETS
  http://www.cancer.ca/canada-wide/prevention/quit%20smoking/second-hand%20smoke.aspx?sc_lang=en
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/secondhandsmoke.html
  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/health/28smoke.html
  http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/nicotine-withdrawal/secondhand-smoke.html
  http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/specialtopic/smoking-and-smokeless-tobacco/overview.html
  http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?id=13
  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/hl_nm/us_heart_smoke
  http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/171539.php

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  by ACCOUNT CLOSED on November 22nd, 2009

• http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/167642.php
  http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/338/feb12_2/b462
  http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20050727/secondhand-smoke-may-harm-fetus-like-smoking
  http://www.aboutkidshealth.ca/News/Getting-tough-on-second-hand-smoke.aspx?articleID=7985&categoryID=news-poh2
  http://pediatrics.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2004/105/1
  http://www.circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.648469v1
  http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-116860218.html
  http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/
  http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol83/index.php
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  Now let me guess...you're going to find a bunch of studies funded by, or directly performed by, Laramie, Philip-Morris, and Marlboro?
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  And you also probably think the widely-known results of drunk-driving are just propaganda...and drunk drivers are just as aware and capable as non-drunks, correct?

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  by ACCOUNT CLOSED on November 22nd, 2009

• Here's some more, just to rub your probably-congested nose in it:
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  http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7114/980
  http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/healthyliving/smokingandtobacco/howdoweknow/index.htm
  http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/healthyliving/smokingandtobacco/index.htm
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1954/feb/13/smoking.fromthearchive
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  Of course, the bitter finale - DEATHS:
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  http://www.wpro.who.int/health_topics/tobacco/
  http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/s/smoking/deaths.htm
  http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/deathsfromsmoking/
  http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/global.htm
  http://whyquit.com/whyquit/a_deathstatisticstable.html
  http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/medicalnews/a/smokingcosts.htm
  http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/165808.php
  http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/92/4/333
  http://www.wri.org/publication/content/8339

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  by ACCOUNT CLOSED on November 22nd, 2009

• You were given three tries to answer the question. Instead, you keep changing the subject. I'll accept this as a concession of defeat. Three strikes and you're out.

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  by Anonymous on November 22nd, 2009

• LOL dumbass I did answer the question - right before calling you out on the moronic claim of the decade. I'll paste it again right here - From 3 comments above:
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  ["if I smoke under a vent would that be alright?" - What do you mean "alright"? You mean legally speaking? Or health-wise? What?
   
  Legally, if it is illegal to smoke inside an establishment, that is a crystal-clear designation that requires NO further explanation - NO SMOKING INSIDE, regardless of your spatial position inside the building."]

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  by ACCOUNT CLOSED on November 22nd, 2009

• just flag it anti, i already did, if you do it may be thrown out

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  by WilAtHart is DONE on November 22nd, 2009

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• I'm allergic to perfume. What should be done about that?

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  by Anonymous on December 5th, 2009

• Are you blind? "Allergies, please do not wear perfume/cologne". In Minnesota, I see that sign in {almost} every business.

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  by Shania on December 5th, 2009

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• Well, I stand corrected. It's worse than I thought.

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  by Anonymous on November 21st, 2009

• Yep! I hear you, James!

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  by Baggins on November 21st, 2009

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• Where will it end?

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  by Anonymous on November 21st, 2009

• another good question! +5

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  by Sherri on November 21st, 2009