As most of you know, this past Tuesday, June 27, 2006, the U.S. Surgeon General issued his sweeping condemnation of second-hand smoke:
U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona today issued a comprehensive scientific report which concludes that there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their risk of developing heart disease by 25 to 30 percent and lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent. The finding is of major public health concern due to the fact that nearly half of all nonsmoking Americans are still regularly exposed to secondhand smoke.
The report, The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke, finds that even brief secondhand smoke exposure can cause immediate harm. The report says the only way to protect nonsmokers from the dangerous chemicals in secondhand smoke is to eliminate smoking indoors.
Fair enough. However, the Surgeon General's comments provide no macroscopic health-risk perspective for policymakers to utilize. Is, for example, second-hand smoke statistically more dangerous than drinking alcohol? Than driving? Than skydiving?
If these items carry as much or more danger than why not ban them, too? Oh, wait- we tried that by something called Prohibition. Now that was a real success.
The fact is that everything in life carries risk (there is a saying, "Life is hazardous to your health"). Second-hand smoke entails risk but, as noted, so does being a passenger in a car. The Surgeon-General's report, when judged in a relative-risk perspective, really does not provide much guidance as to which risks should be the subject of limited public regulatory resources.
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Posted by: | December 23, 2008 at 08:06 PM
You neglect to mention in your myopic comparison that people CHOOSE to drink alcohol or skydive. They don't choose to inhale tobacco smoke when others inflict it on them.
*IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE* don't you think?
Or don't you have a clue. Judging from the BIAS here, I don't think you do. Maybe you will find that life teaches you something valuable someday and get one.
Its not okay to poison people...
Posted by: [email protected] | July 31, 2006 at 04:42 PM
That comment makes no sense. I do not choose to have someone smoke around me or below me at my non smoking apartment building. You can choose to go sky diving knowing the risk, but that is way different than someone forcing you to breath second hand smoke. Or how about my unborn child having to inhale it because our neighbor is smoking. Is that just a part of life?
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