Penn & Teller second hand smoke

[Lee Nub]

Jeff from Corona Cigars just posted this on his facebook, have a look and see what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAfKYWianso&feature=autofb

[MarkSDMF]

This is excellent ! :L

God how i want to Chuck Norris, roundhouse kick these naive, do-gooding bastards square on their, eh, SQUARE chins !

[tippexx]

Yes, I've always felt that the claim that passive smoking causes cancer has about the same validity as the claim by certain activist groups that one in ten of the UK population is gay. That fortunately has been Scientifically rubbished and now down numbered to one in a hundred (which I think, and I've no down on gays, is still being generous).

The passive lobby soapbox latched itself to Roy Castles death, supposedly caused by contracting Cancer through exposure to cigarette smoke in Jazz and Working Mens Clubs. Yet no mention is ever made of the longevity of the hundreds of other (and better) musicians who until the ban had spent almost their entire professional lives in smokey night clubs.

Sometimes for some the soapbox can be turned into a career. And once their livelihood becomes dependent on an argument no matter how spurios, they will defend that argument against anything evidenced to the contrary.


'Ang 'im. I say.

[davidruddell]

As I sat outside a well known coffee chain yesterday (lets call it tar bucks), smoking a dippy No.5 , a mother with a child in a push chair, audibly tutted and gave me the most dirty look I've had in ages (I've had plenty, used to wear tweed and live in Stoke on Trent).

I've decided it wasn't the health hazard for her child, but the danger of her nylon leisure/track suit going up in flames and doing the world a huge favour, that may have concerned her.

As a father of two, I never smoke indoors, and never 'promote/enthuse about' cigars in their presence.

Although my five year old has asked many times to sniff the humidor when opened!

'Nice' he says, I'm so proud.

[richgirling]

Great vid. Lee.
Funny that it was an American (Mark Twain) who said "Lies, damed lies, and statistics"!

[cbob]

Yes, I've always felt that the claim that passive smoking causes cancer has about the same validity as the claim by certain activist groups that one in ten of the UK population is gay.

I wouldn't want to comment on the "straightness" of my fellow UK cigar smokers but I do want to disagree with your feelings about second hand smoke.

The last 7 years of my working career was spent in the lung cancer field and I found out that there is a large component of genetic pre-disposition toward lung cancer and that can be a hazard for non-smokers subjected to the smoke of others. While I was able to reassure myself about the relative safety of cigar smoking, (if you don't inhale) I saw far too many examples of cancers in those who had never smoked but had grown up in a family of smokers or who had a spouse who was a heavy smoker or had worked for many years in a smoky environment. I'm concerned enough to attempt whenever possible to smoke my cigars outdoors or in a well ventilated room.

Unless you know for sure that you have no genetic tendency towards lung cancer, I'd avoid breathing a lot of smoke- your own or others.
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