Rant alert
RANT ALERT. A rant alert has been issued for this blog effective immediately....
I know this will piss off the smokers, but I say "it's about time".
Today, the surgeon general said there is no safe level of second hand smoke. I think the term "involuntary smoking" is going to be a new catchphrase.
One of the reports findings makes me want to scream however:
On the plus side, blood measurements of a nicotine byproduct show that exposure to secondhand smoke has decreased. Levels dropped by 75 percent in adults and 68 percent in children between the early 1990s and 2002. However, not only has children's exposure declined less rapidly, but levels of that byproduct among children are more than twice as high as in nonsmoking adults.
Our immunology studies show that those who have the least amount of nicotine exposure (just above background) have the LOWEST amount of lymphocyte growth. So while there's a decrease in the amount of nicotine second hand smokers are exposed to, it could be more harmful than if it's a lot of nicotine they're exposed to.
GEEK NOTE: When they refer to nicotine byproduct, they're referring to cotinine. When your body breaks down nicotine, it takes one molecule of nicotine and converts it to one molecule of cotinine. All smoking studies I've seen test for presence of cotinine because it shows how much nicotine the body is processing.
I'm overall happy that this is coming out. I personally cannot stand smoke around me. I'm happy that every non-bar eating place in Pima county is non-smoking. I don't go to bars because of the smoke. Saturday night at the casino I got stuck next to a woman with a never ending cigarette. Even when I started coughing, she looked at me with a look like "go somewhere else." If smokers are in the minority of the population, why are we bending over backwards for them when as a minority with dietary restrictions can be told "tough luck".
Well, tough luck smokers. I'm sick of putting up with your smoke breaks, your flippiant attitude in starting wildfires with your cigarette butts, and your inability to understand not understand that you're in the minority.
This now ends the rant warning for this blog.
I know this will piss off the smokers, but I say "it's about time".
Today, the surgeon general said there is no safe level of second hand smoke. I think the term "involuntary smoking" is going to be a new catchphrase.
One of the reports findings makes me want to scream however:
On the plus side, blood measurements of a nicotine byproduct show that exposure to secondhand smoke has decreased. Levels dropped by 75 percent in adults and 68 percent in children between the early 1990s and 2002. However, not only has children's exposure declined less rapidly, but levels of that byproduct among children are more than twice as high as in nonsmoking adults.
Our immunology studies show that those who have the least amount of nicotine exposure (just above background) have the LOWEST amount of lymphocyte growth. So while there's a decrease in the amount of nicotine second hand smokers are exposed to, it could be more harmful than if it's a lot of nicotine they're exposed to.
GEEK NOTE: When they refer to nicotine byproduct, they're referring to cotinine. When your body breaks down nicotine, it takes one molecule of nicotine and converts it to one molecule of cotinine. All smoking studies I've seen test for presence of cotinine because it shows how much nicotine the body is processing.
I'm overall happy that this is coming out. I personally cannot stand smoke around me. I'm happy that every non-bar eating place in Pima county is non-smoking. I don't go to bars because of the smoke. Saturday night at the casino I got stuck next to a woman with a never ending cigarette. Even when I started coughing, she looked at me with a look like "go somewhere else." If smokers are in the minority of the population, why are we bending over backwards for them when as a minority with dietary restrictions can be told "tough luck".
Well, tough luck smokers. I'm sick of putting up with your smoke breaks, your flippiant attitude in starting wildfires with your cigarette butts, and your inability to understand not understand that you're in the minority.
This now ends the rant warning for this blog.
posted by Jenn @ 08:56
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