We’re all sharing space, some of us a lot of the time. It can be rude to smoke up a high traffic area at the same time that it’s rude to make a big deal about it.
There are multiple studies from the last 30ish years showing a strong link between 2nd hand (or passive) smoking and increased cancer risk. I suspect there are fewer linking burnt chicken to cancer.
The point is you make a choice about inhaling burnt chicken smoke, you don’t about inhaling someone else’s cigarette smoke and there are way more cigarettes than burnt chicken breast!
Maybe so, but their secondhand smoke outdoors is of very low concentration. It is not the old days where we’re growing up indoors around a bunch of smokers everywhere. The smoke you smell walking by those people can be hurting less than getting elevated blood pressure about it.
It can help to take some time for perspective on matters like this. That smoker is not hurting anything so much that taking an effort to stop him is at all likely to be an effective use of your energy compared other uses of that same amount of energy. One can spend one’s whole life working to exhaustion and achieve nothing if his efforts are misapplied.
It says a lot about the nature of addiction when people go out of their way to try and reason and rationalize the impact of their substance of choice. I don’t want to breathe in your smoke, OK? Smoke doesn’t give me that option because it permeates. You’re in the wrong if you smoke around anyone. Period.
We’re all sharing space, some of us a lot of the time. It can be rude to smoke up a high traffic area at the same time that it’s rude to make a big deal about it.
Perhaps the rural life is for you!
How is it rude to make a big deal out of something that is literally well known to give you cancer?
The amount of carcinogenic effect from a whiff of tobacco outside is no more than that from a nice blackened chicken filet.
It can be rude because making a big deal about it likely takes more time that that you both will never get back than the puff of smoke does.
Cigarettes can be killing that guy and sweating this stuff can be killing you.
There are multiple studies from the last 30ish years showing a strong link between 2nd hand (or passive) smoking and increased cancer risk. I suspect there are fewer linking burnt chicken to cancer.
The point is you make a choice about inhaling burnt chicken smoke, you don’t about inhaling someone else’s cigarette smoke and there are way more cigarettes than burnt chicken breast!
Yeah but surely those studies were measuring second hand smoke from sharing a home with a smoker. That amount of exposure will certainly cause harm.
Breathing a fraction of one draw in passing isn’t gonna cause anything.
I’d like to see the study on the carcinogenic effect of blackened chicken. Until then, you can be mad smokers are hated in society.
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/acrylamide-fact-sheet https://www.healthline.com/health/is-grilling-with-charcoal-or-other-heat-sources-carcinogenic
Those 2 things aren’t even remotely equal. Smokers are fucking idiots.
Maybe so, but their secondhand smoke outdoors is of very low concentration. It is not the old days where we’re growing up indoors around a bunch of smokers everywhere. The smoke you smell walking by those people can be hurting less than getting elevated blood pressure about it.
It can help to take some time for perspective on matters like this. That smoker is not hurting anything so much that taking an effort to stop him is at all likely to be an effective use of your energy compared other uses of that same amount of energy. One can spend one’s whole life working to exhaustion and achieve nothing if his efforts are misapplied.
It says a lot about the nature of addiction when people go out of their way to try and reason and rationalize the impact of their substance of choice. I don’t want to breathe in your smoke, OK? Smoke doesn’t give me that option because it permeates. You’re in the wrong if you smoke around anyone. Period.
All those “misapplied efforts” got smoking banned on planes, restaurants, schools, busses, … Sometimes giving yourself high blood pressure pays off