Well
the baby boomer generation born in the 1940s and 50s grew up at a time when the majority smoked, and people smoked everywhere - home, work, pub, cinema, car etc. So as kids they would have been exposed to much more smoke than nowadays - even teachers smoked in the classroom back then.

I don't see that generation all dying of passive smoking-related illnesses. Ditto they don't have the levels of asthma that have appeared over the last 20 years in children.

Smoking might be / is vile, smelly, irritating and fatal to the smoker.

However passive smoking is being used as a method of banning smoking; the reality is that it is unpleasant for others, but not fatal, and the science behind the message "passive smoking kills" remains unproven.
( I_Was_Mordred, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 13:57, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

^^^THIS^^^
The passive smoking kills idea is a very flimsy one, not being a science bod I cant remember the exact figures but its something like:

If you stand over a Barbeque for 30 minutes you will inhale more carcinogens, then if you were locked in a room with passive smoke for a month... Or something similar...

While smoking may be unpleasant to the non wheezers it isnt a reason to ban it...
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 14:39, Reply)