Secondhand passive smoking affects 58 million Americans, mainly kids: CDC

February 4, 2015 By AH 5 Comments

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has made a shocking revelation in its latest report that showed even though fewer Americans are engaged in smoking habit due to more stringent smoke-free laws, a massive 58 million nonsmokers still are exposed to secondhand smoke.

The federal health officials on Tuesday said that a large number of people are facing the brunt of the cigarette smoking habit among smokers as they are exposed to dangerous tobacco smoke due to secondhand smoking.

A report showed that the secondhand smoke exposure dropped by half between two periods 1999-2000 and 2011-12. But unfortunately this decline in rates failed to save the nonsmokers from facing the ill-effects of passive smoking.

“Secondhand smoke can kill. Too many Americans, particularly children, are still exposed to secondhand smoke,” said CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden while addressing a press conference on Tuesday.

As per the CDC estimates, 40 percent of children aged between 3 and 11 are exposed to secondhand smoke. The figure is at a very alarming level for black children as the report shows 70 percent of them getting exposed to it.

Citing the US Surgeon General, Frieden said, “There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Tobacco smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals including roughly 70 that can cause cancer.”

According to official figures, the secondhand smoke kills over 41,000 Americans each year after causing them serious ailments like heart-related diseases and lung cancer, while it results into 400 deaths from SIDS. The health officials said that all the deaths from second smoke related deaths are preventable.

Passive smoke causes serious health issues among infants and children such as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), asthma attacks, respiratory infections and ear infections. In adults, secondhand smoke causes health ailments like heart disease, stroke and lung cancer.

The findings of study were detailed in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on February 3.

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Anoneumouse

100% of the population of the world has been exposed to pseudo science. Most scientists just blow smoke up your bottom to get funding. Discuss!
Daniel Hammond

OSHA also took on the passive smoking fraud and this is what came of it:

Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence: Third Edition

This sorta says it all

These limits generally are based on assessments of health risk and calculations of concentrations that are associated with what the regulators believe to be negligibly small risks. The calculations are made after first identifying the total dose of a chemical that is safe (poses a negligible risk) and then determining the concentration of that chemical in the medium of concern that should not be exceeded if exposed individuals (typically those at the high end of media contact) are not to incur a dose greater than the safe one.

So OSHA standards are what is the guideline for what is acceptable ”SAFE LEVELS”

OSHA SAFE LEVELS

All this is in a small sealed room 9×20 and must occur in ONE HOUR.

For Benzo[a]pyrene, 222,000 cigarettes.

“For Acetone, 118,000 cigarettes.

“Toluene would require 50,000 packs of simultaneously smoldering cigarettes.

Acetaldehyde or Hydrazine, more than 14,000 smokers would need to light up.

“For Hydroquinone, “only” 1250 cigarettes.

For arsenic 2 million 500,000 smokers at one time.

The same number of cigarettes required for the other so called chemicals in shs/ets will have the same outcomes.

So, OSHA finally makes a statement on shs/ets :

Field studies of environmental tobacco smoke indicate that under normal conditions, the components in tobacco smoke are diluted below existing Permissible Exposure Levels (PELS.) as referenced in the Air Contaminant Standard (29 CFR 1910.1000)…It would be very rare to find a workplace with so much smoking that any individual PEL would be exceeded.” -Letter From Greg Watchman, Acting Sec’y, OSHA.

Why are their any smoking bans at all they have absolutely no validity to the courts or to science!
Daniel Hammond

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/13163/reference-manual-on-scientific-evidence-third-edition
Daniel Hammond

Manufacturing the science to meet the agenda, in black on white. Does anyone still have doubts?

”Bal laughs when asked about the role of scientific evidence in guiding policy decisions. “There was no science on how to do a community intervention on something of this global dimension,” he says. “Where there is no science, you have to go and be venturesome—you can’t use the paucity of science as an excuse to do nothing. We created the science, we did the interventions and then all the scientists came in behind us and analyzed what we did.”

Read under the title :
Tobacco Control: The Long War—When the Evidence Has to Be Created

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Daniel Hammond

The Chemistry of Secondary Smoke About 94% of secondary smoke is composed of water vapor and ordinary air with a slight excess of carbon dioxide. Another 3 % is carbon monoxide. The last 3 % contains the rest of the 4,000 or so chemicals supposedly to be found in smoke… but found, obviously, in very small quantities if at all.This is because most of the assumed chemicals have never actually been found in secondhand smoke. (1989 Report of the Surgeon General p. 80). Most of these chemicals can only be found in quantities measured in nanograms, picograms and femtograms. Many cannot even be detected in these amounts: their presence is simply theorized rather than measured. To bring those quantities into a real world perspective, take a saltshaker and shake out a few grains of salt. A single grain of that salt will weigh in the ballpark of 100 million picograms! (Allen Blackman. Chemistry Magazine 10/08/01). – (Excerpted from “Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains” with permission of the author.)