second hand smoke

[desflood]

Second hand smoke = not a concern

but no chance of that through second hand smoke.

Health-wise, you should have little concern about the smoking.

Evidence suggests otherwise.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/f...et/Tobacco/ETS

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. National Toxicology Program, the U.S. Surgeon General, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer have all classified secondhand smoke as a known human carcinogen (a cancer-causing agent).

Inhaling secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmoking adults. Approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths occur each year among adult nonsmokers in the United States as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke. The U.S. Surgeon General estimates that living with a smoker increases a nonsmoker’s chances of developing lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent.

[mrsmaalox]

Well that's probably one reason the 50yr old guys hang around there so much instead of having their own places/lives.

[silverblk mystix]

What if I asked YOU if I could just kill you by punching you in the face...just slowly...and continued punching you softly until your in' brain began to bleed and kill you...

it is the same with second hand smoke...you are slowly killing yourself....but it is just a little bit at a time...so it is okay for you,right?

If you care about YOURSELF...dump this guy and choose to live a life withOUT something dangerous killing you slowly...

use your brain, please...

[MannyIsGod]

You know better. You know its bad for you and you're at increased risk if you stay in this situation for certain medical problems.

This doesn't mean you're going to need an iron lung to live in 2 years but it does increase your health risks.

If you want to keep dating this guy then do so. But you also know that its unlikely he's going to quit if you ask him to - especially if he's getting defensive when you bring it up. Every relationship has its set of things that you live with and every person has to decide when they find something in a person they're dating that they don't want to live with.

Either its worth it or its not but I really doubt the smoking is going to change. Its almost certainly not going to change while he lives with other smokers.

[Nick Manning]

The guy sounds like he hates himself...time to move on.

[Bender]

Evidence suggests otherwise.

it's always 2nd hand cigarette smoke that cause problems with lungs. Can't be the constant breathing in of exhaust fumes while sitting in traffic, or walking down the street.. or even just being outside in the "fresh" (lol) air.

[Blake]

it's always 2nd hand cigarette smoke that cause problems with lungs. Can't be the constant breathing in of exhaust fumes while sitting in traffic, or walking down the street.. or even just being outside in the "fresh" (lol) air.

Can't be either, neither or both (lol)

[easjer]

You know better. You know its bad for you and you're at increased risk if you stay in this situation for certain medical problems.

This doesn't mean you're going to need an iron lung to live in 2 years but it does increase your health risks.

If you want to keep dating this guy then do so. But you also know that its unlikely he's going to quit if you ask him to - especially if he's getting defensive when you bring it up. Every relationship has its set of things that you live with and every person has to decide when they find something in a person they're dating that they don't want to live with.

Either its worth it or its not but I really doubt the smoking is going to change. Its almost certainly not going to change while he lives with other smokers.

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That.

[Bender]

have you brought up just "cutting down" ? Maybe to half a pack a day.

[Bender]

next we are going to see ads about smoking causing penile warts, man boobs, premature baldness, and every other bad thing.

[frodo]

smokers are less likely to catch a cold than non-smokers tbh, so it's not necessarily a bad thing imho