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I am not sure why I am continuing to respond to this but the frantic lack of reason just irks me.  I may have to go get in my safely emitting car and buy myself a lethal pack of cigarettes to calm down.  Ok, your statements are so hyperbolic, I am not sure how to make sense of them.  How do you define "safe" as you have used it here?  Safe is a relative term.  I think it is accurate to say that a bullet to the head is not safe even in a small amount.  A puff of cigarette within 100 miles of you, or even within 10 feet of you is not equivalent to a bullet to the head.  You are citing nothing so I have no idea what you are basing your conclusions on but any medical professional can tell you that the lung cancer cases they see are people who have smoked multiple packs per day for years, not someone who once walked by someone smoking a cigarette.  [/quote]

Do a Google search for "safe level of exposure" to tobacco smoke and you will find a wealth of information that should answer your questions about what defines "unsafe" with respect to tobacco smoke exposure.

A puff of cigarette smoke 100 miles away won't hurt me, but countless daily exposures likely will. Walking behind a smokers on the sidewalk, sitting next to one at an outdoor cafe, walking through a cloud of smoke from the smokers standing outside of a bar, etc....this happening every day, several times a day, for a lifetime is the reason why lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in smokers and non-smokers alike.

Of course getting shot in the head is very different from a lifetime of cumulative exposure to tobacco smoke. Even though tobacco smoke won't kill you instantly like a bullet probably would, it's still very harmful. It is the only legal substance that will kill at least half of its users, and scores of innocent non-users. Can you think of other legal substance about which you could say the same?[/quote]

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