Just thought I would post some articles to back up my second hand smoke is dangerous claim: Aust N Z J Public Health 2001;25(1):90-3 Related Articles, Books, _link_Out                               Second-hand smoke at work: the exposure, perceptions and attitudes of bar and restaurant workers                               to environmental tobacco smoke.                               Jones S, Love C, Thomson G, Green R, Howden-Chapman P.                               Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand.                               _object_IVES: To investigate the knowledge of, and perceptions, attitudes and exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) of staff in the                               New Zealand hospitality industry. METHOD: Face-to-face interviews with bar staff, waiters, and bar and eating-place managers and                               owners in Wellington during the 1999-2000 summer. An analysis was made of the 1999 New Zealand Electoral Roll to find the                               number of those most exposed to SHS. RESULTS: 435 interviews with full data recovery were completed at 364 locations; 59% of                               interviewees were exposed to SHS, including 77% of those at licensed premises. More than half of those exposed to workplace                               smoke reported irritation from SHS to their throat or lungs. Less than a third were aware of the risk of strokes from SHS.                               Three-quarters of interviewees wanted some sort of smoking restriction in bars. CONCLUSIONS: The majority of interviewees were at                               risk of premature death and disease because of exposure to workplace smoke, and had an incomplete knowledge of the dangers to                               which they were exposed. More than 5,000 similar workers in New Zealand appear to share this risk. Implications: This industry needs                               legislation to make it smoke free. 1: W V Med J 2001 Jan-Feb;97(1):27-8 Related Articles, Books, _link_Out                               Second-hand cigarette smoke is a major contributor to asthma in children.                               Wilson NW.                               Section of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, USA.                               PMID: 11257832 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Cancer Treat Res 2001;105:31-52 Related Articles, Books, _link_Out                               The epidemiology of lung cancer.                               Williams MD, Sandler AB.                               Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.                               Lung cancer continues to be the leader in cancer deaths in the United States. The incidence of lung cancer in men has slowly                               decreased since the late 1980s, but has just now begun to plateau in women at the end of this decade. Despite modest advances in                               chemotherapy for treating lung cancer, it remains a deadly disease with overall 5-yr survival rates having not increased significantly                               over the last 25 years, remaining at approximately 14%. Tobacco smoking causes approximately 85-90% of bronchogenic carcinoma.                               Environmental tobacco exposure or a second-hand smoke also may cause lung cancer in life-long non-smokers. Certain                               occupational agents such as arsenic, asbestos, chromium, nickel and vinyl chloride increase the relative risk for lung cancer. Smoking                               has an additive or multiplicative effect with some of these agents. Familial predisposition for lung cancer is an area with advancing                               research. Developments in molecular biology have led to growing interest in investigation of biological markers, which may increase                               predisposition to smoking-related carcinogenesis. Hopefully, in the future we will be able to screen for lung cancer by using specific                               biomarkers. Finally, dietary factors have also been proposed as potential risk modulators, with vitamins A, C and E proposed as                               having a protective effect. Despite the slow decline of smoking in the United States, lung cancer will likely continue its devastation for                               years to come.