32 Replies to “Study: Secondhand Smoke Shown To Be Harmless”

  1. Ok, I watched the video and would list as one of the most vacuous and obtuse “news” stories being offered these days. Although, the entertainment factor was fantastic. They had two overweight women basically agreeing with the comparison between cake being offered at the workplace and second hand smoke. The amusing factor was that both were laboring the fact that sweets being offered is a negative (when it’s obvious that both would likely be first in line). In other words…no self discipline. Someone else needs to do that for them.

    I wasn’t clear on who did the “study” if in fact one was actually done. My spidey sense suggests that the Food Standards Agency in the UK just pulled that one out of thin air to give the appearance that they actually do something. Or, maybe it’s connected to the all important climate change nonsense. You know, to make cake you need milk and eggs. Or maybe fat people just use more oxygen. Who knows. It’s all nonsense.

    1. It certainly does if you already have asthma or other respiratory problems. Cigarette smoke is particularly nasty. But inhaling smoke of any kind (including wood smoke, which I love the smell of) is downright painful.

      1. 9 feet!! Aieeeee!! That’s wayyyyyy too close!! I can still SEE them … aiiiiieeeeeeee! I DEMAND they remain out of sight.

    1. I was addicted to those candy cigarettes back in the 60’s. It is no small matter to mix sugar and tobacco. I’ve seen the effect of peer pressure, walking down the 13th concession and seeing my buds fake sucking our life away.

  2. Pfft it’s not the occasional cake at work, it’s all the extra eating they do all the rest of their time.

  3. I remember the WHO study that was done decades ago. It was done over a period of 10 years and was the most comprehensive study ever done on the subject. When they released their finding that there was little or no harm done by second-hand smoke, the anti-smoking organizations *WENT BALLISTIC*. The WHO quickly ‘walked it back’ and the story immediately disappeared.

    I particularly liked the often-made assertion that second hand smoke was “worse for you than regular smoke”. Umm…okay…

    1. As Mark Twain is alleged to have said in relation to cigars, “If I cannot smoke in Heaven, then I shall not go”.

    2. Usually a study is followed up with one providing further details and confirming the first. I have never seen, found, been shown research confirming the story of “secondhand smoking”. Can anyone give me a a research paper with the claim ? The fad was the first in a long line of hoaxes which the crazy succumbed to in the past 30 years. Pot smoke was excluded for unknown reasons. However those who follow homeopathy believe dilution increases potency. Try that with a beer.

  4. New study on the health effects of serving pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving to extended family coming this Fall.

    McDonald’s pumpkin spice McFlurries are excluded.

  5. Are we awake yet? Anyone who doesn’t doubt the “science” of second hand smoke must have hit the snooze button. When they banned smoking by doorways you had to suspect it was nonsense.
    But what the hell, have another shot while you still can.

  6. It is possible to politely refuse offered treats. And to exercise to deal with any overindulgence. Neither of those are mentioned here. And second hand smoke is not the same as cake – a false comparison seeking to appear virtuous.

  7. Had a buddy who when it was his turn to provide cake for the weekly coffee and cake session, used whole carrots. The big one plus inch thick ones.

    Thus ended coffee and cake.

  8. The biggest lie ever perpetrated on the public? … Global Warming
    The second biggest lie ever perpetrated on the public? … Second Hand Smoke.

    And I’ve never smoked in my life. And I worked for 6-years in a small office with a chain smoking boss who rolled his own Bull Durham cigarettes …

  9. Caker, caker, non-caker (white blazer), caker…

    Wow, if cigarettes had such obvious consequences no one would smoke.
    Me thinks the cakers are all non-smokers, and, although young, the non-caker looks like she’s pining for a martini and a Virginia Slim.

  10. All those things you can’t afford anymore because of the inflation we caused were bad for you anyway, so don’t complain. Your co-workers lives depend on the nanny state, so keep voting for us. Isn’t it grand that us modern-day Marie-Antoinettes have political strategists?

  11. I grew up with no real cake eaters in my family, except for my two Grandparents.

    They were life long cakers. They claimed there was no evidence to support that cake was bad for you, but at their home you could life the pictures off the way and clearly see the staining on the walls from the cake filled rooms they spent most of their time in.

    At least I think it was cakes. Might have been gas stoves…

  12. Why just the other day I drove past a construction site and steelworkers were yukking it up celebrating a co workers birthday with a slice of cake.
    The picture above tells you all you need to know.

  13. The second hand smoke hysteria was more about kitschy moral authority and purity, and lifestyle repudiation, than about health. A forerunner for the litany of alarmisms to come – climate, Floyd, covid.

    1. “The second hand smoke hysteria was more about kitschy moral authority and purity, and lifestyle repudiation, than about health”

      For sure. Standing on a downtown street corner in rush hour seems more unhealthy than a whiff of tobacco smoke…

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