Third Hand Smoke NBC Today Show 05JAN09

[energydrinkperson06]

thats why i smoke outside it feels like ur suffocating after just smoking like 3 cigs in the house even though i use to have to live in an apartment with 2 pack a day smokers and sometimes someone who smoked 2-4 packs a day and someone else in the same house smoked a pack a day its miserable in a smoky house

[eoo8]

what about cars!!

[tatomuck18]

cars have to run on cleaner fumes with all this strict regulations. Thats why you never see huge clouds of smoke coming out of car tailpipes you used to see 20-30 years ago.

[garagecrap]

Buses alone create infinitively more of this pollution you breathe. I'm not even mentioning industry. Smokers are one drop in the ocean compare to that.

So get real and stop your hate speech.

[123Larra]

That women has got some serious issues.

[bestbets1]

Really!!! If we want to give up our lives and money smoking SO BE IT! Its our choice. We, the smokers are funding your pitifull health care and other things! You could never ban tobacco! It earns the government too much money, of course if tobacco was illegal you would find it in the black market. Marijuana is about to be made legal in some places in America, and already is in places like Holland, there usage rates are no more than where drugs are illegal. Get a life, let non/smokers choose!!!!

[gardevoirjarron]

@bestbets1 they dont care about u smoking, they only start caring when it harms others

[drsmp]

Its quite hilarious to read the comments left by people who think smoking/second-hand smoking is harmless. Maybe if any of you had a scientific background, experience in medical research, or even walked through a hospital cancer ward, you wouldn't be writing such absolute crap about how 'the liberals are trying to control us'. You want to live in your own naive world when scientific evidence PROVES otherwise? Fine. Maybe you'll change your mind when you or a loved one is in a cancer ward.

[throwshoesatobama]

@drsmp I do not see no scientific evidence PROVEN beyond a reasonable doubt here or any court across this land that people are dying from someone elses secondhand smoke. Only bogus propaganda put out by paranoid schizophrenic like yourself.

[drsmp]

@throwshoesatobama: If you don't see any scientific evidence, then you obviously haven't looked. Instead, you are going by your own ignorant, misinformed, uneducated opinion. How about you spend some time reading medical journals or even speaking to people who work in the medical field and then maybe you'll learn something. But then again, you haven't listened to me and I am a doctor. I suppose stupid people like yourself will always be stupid. I wont waste any more time responding to you.

[throwshoesatobama]

@drsmp so just because you are a doc I am to take what ever comes out of your mouth as the gospel. You know it all and I am just an ignorant lowly layman. Yet when asked to for the proof that people are dying from 2nd hand smoke your diagnosis is I am just stupid and are out of time. Thats funny doc and only proves I hit a nerve because you know you don't have any evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that smokers are harming others when they light up much less this 3rd hand BS

[throwshoesatobama]

@drsmp And another thing doc I know your time is precious but it has been my exp with doc and others in your field that they love to blame whatever ails you smoking these days because it gives them a quick and out the door diagnosis . Its ALL about money. condemn the smoker, tax the smoker, condemn the smoker again for condemning others because all docs say so Tax the smoker and condemn again and pay the doc when you go out the door. since I am a condemned smoker I will enjoy my cigarette

[sreymind]

This is so riduculous it comes across as a parody. Unfortunately I don't think it is. That woman is mental.

[pushindaenvolop]

Oh.... don't forget there has been about 500 (?!) atmospheric "tests" (detonations) of nuclear weapons since the 1940's. What kind of crap has THAT left in our water, in our food chain, in our soil, in our air? What is the hald life of some of that crap. And smokers are so evil? What about depleated uranium shells still in use today? Come on "big brother".....

[portbue]

Snyderman, sounds not very catholic, she is one of the zionazi jews that want to control USA and the world. They start just with this smoking bans and finish with a big Holocaust of all smokers......

Please see the Milberg experiments.......

[wallycard]

Dr. Snyderman is reporting on factors reported in a journal by OTHER authors, physicians from a Boston hospital.... and your comments come dangerously close to being anti-semitic... please keep your comments relative to the subject matter.

[Boghman22]

@wallycard Don't feed into the troll or his idiot ideologies. Anyway, I cannot agree with this her because she did not provide sufficient data to support her claims. I treat second hand smoke a fable and a scare-tactic-this is no different.

Oh, and to solidify my non-biased stance-I must say that I am not a smoker, nor have I ever been.

[Boghman22]

@portbue Completely irrelevant-you, sir, are a troll.

[throwshoesatobama]

second hand smoke is bullshit and this third hand smoke is double bullshit

and the people in this video are nothing bullshitters shitters.

[gardevoirjarron]

@throwshoesatobama i dont believe this third hand stuff but second hand smoke does kill ppl

[throwshoesatobama]

@gardevoirjarron BULLSHIT!!!!!!

[gardevoirjarron]

@throwshoesatobama second hand smoke is real! u just dont want to believe it because it makes u guilty of hurting people if u ever smoked around someone

[throwshoesatobama]

@gardevoirjarron wrong I don't feel guilty about a damn thing. nobody has ever proven that anybody has ever died from someone else's smoke. And to say that smokers are killers of others would have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law that person died solely because of being near someone with a lit cigarette. And you can't because there is no evidence to support this and until it is proven this is just more bogus propaganda. What next Fourth hand smoke? ridiculous

[gardevoirjarron]

@throwshoesatobama but it has been proven

[ETSisbull]

@gardevoirjarron When has it been proven? The '93 EPA report didn't prove it. The '98 WHO study found that there was "no association between childhood exposure to ETS and lung cancer risk" and that the increased risk for adults was not statistically significant. A report out of Canada last year proves that something other than smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmokers. Its is made up and driven by PC. canada.com/health/Lung+cancer+­smokers+looks+different+than+s­moker/3803239/story.html

[LuvBugLuvver]

Is there anything sadder than using bogus junk science as a justifiable excuse to discriminate against people based on what you don't like them doing? Oh, yes there is.....

Creating an imaginary scenario where the "enemy" is "potentially killing our children!"

Hitler would be so proud!

[magrathean0]

We should have resisted these lunatics properly when they started; now they have a foot in the door

[kirsten123123]

9,000 thumbs up if I could.

[throwshoesatobama]

@magrathean0 Amen!!!

[ledluverjlp]

If this comes out of a buses exhaust pipe then why are you worried about the smokers? Buses put out a lot more per year, the stuff is in the air as it is!!

[SwingGirlBlues]

This is a real threat. I've had asthma attacks from this sort of thing - I knew about "third hand smoke" before they coined the term!

[jfmayer]

at 2:05 I never heard such bullshit in my whole life

fuck ! this is insane, what's next ! by the way I'm building a time machine, anyone wants to come with me ?, any target in time will do as long as it's before the nineties.

[ryno23gocubs]

I'll join ya.

[dallas94bass]

Third hand smoke my ass...

[KusuriRX]

well what about 4th 5th and 6th hand smoke, you know being around some one that was around some one that was around someone that smoked 32 years ago can kill you... seriously give me a break, get a freaking life... everything kills you..

[Aldiggy2000]

2:05 ! = load of bullshit right there

[mediddly]

You've got bigger worries than 3rd hand smoke...but really, why smoke at all? It's expensive, disgusting, and terrible for your health.

There are already plenty of reasons to quit smoking.

[czechphil]

all bull shit

the amount their talking about are so small. we maight as well say that eating stuff out of the micro wave will kill you

[daveravegin]

What a load of crap! Some of you have already swallowed the lies about secondhand smoke, I dont blame you! Its not your fault! The rumers have been going around for a long time and has been said as fact! This is getting more and more ridiculas! Please dont belive this shit you are being subjected to because rumers like these are loosing more and more rights of smokers around the world! This hatred for ciggeretes has got to stop! Let freedom persist as it has done for many years!

[barbsleeps]

Are you kidding me?? These people have lost their minds. If this was true how come every baby boomer that grew up with parents smoking isn't dead.Next it will be right hand smoke, then left hand smoke. They should have quit while they were ahead. This has turned into a witch hunt with no evidence offered that this is even true.

[scrawlaz]

tobacco companies are just gona use this as a new way to market smokeless tobacco.... cant really target them with this. however targeting a smoker isnt going to come of any anything but anger, esspecially calling someone a toxic waste dump, like WTF thats just mean its not like they can just quit. final comment is ..this is just bold..

[jaboy1986]

Wow I'm pretty blown away. I think there just trying to outlaw cigarettes. Well if they were I'd respect them more to just flat out say that's there goal. Instead of the bitch tactic they are doing. I don't smoke and I never have in my life. But I feel it's every persons personal choice. And I feel this isn't being thrown out there for health reasons but in spite of the cigarette companies. What will they think of next?

[FFJesse]

What is it going to take to ban smoking in ALL restaurants, bars and public areas? "Maque26" What kind of comment is that, "smoke around children and hope they die" You need your head examined.

[cookiect2003]

Someone needs to croak these Doctors

[primalhealer]

third hand smoke causes female pattern baldness. 4 hand farting is killing more people than elton john thats the the true killer.

[Maque26]

When are people going to figure out we don't give a shit. Im almost encouraged to smoke around children and hope they die so you are bitching for a reason. At least you would have good proof.

[joshpembers]

This is about 99% bullshit.

[sensfan07]

i agree with you new world we have no freedom anymore. next we are gonna have 4th hand smoke 5th and 6th this is stupid someone should knock some sense in these people and tell them we dont care anymore

[ryno23gocubs]

100% bullshit.

[Frostylude]

This is just brap from liberals. It's these high strung middle aged liberals who are just looking to pussify the next generation even more. I grew up in the 60s, and EVERYONE SMOKED. I mean geez everyone doesn't mind seeing a fatass kid waddle into mickey dees but as soon as you see someone lighting up, god forbid they remain in your presence

[wallycard]

and mothers were putting bourbon in their infant's milk bottles to help them sleep better in the 60s. In the 60s, we didn't know that Nicotine was as addictive as heroin and cocaine. We didn't know chemicals like Hydrogen Cyanide (also used in prison executions) Geraniol (found in pesticides) and Formaldehyde were in cigs. It wasn't until 2006, that we discovered tobacco companies manipulated nicotine levels to keep people addicted. This isn't the place to defend smoking...

[sensfan07]

oh give me a break i personaly dont smoke i dont like it but 3rd hand smoke like give me a break it is getting pathetic we know that smokeing is bad for us we dont need some person to tell us that smoke stays in our clothes that is obvious why waste money on a study on something like that. as far as it being bad for us who gives a shit there are much more worse things to worry about then "3rd hand smoke". we are loseing our freedome every year that goes by if a person wants to smoke let them

[sensfan07]

if you dont like them smokeing then walk around them or leave the area no one asked you to stay around them you have legs you can walk away why dont you do that smokeing companies are a buisness and they do what buisnesses do best find ways to survive and get people to buy their products it is interesting you really think its funny how they dont give us a time line on how long it lasts in the material " lasts for a long time" nice stat wish i could use that in school maybe i would get A's then.

[LuvBugLuvver]

On the contrary....any place where smoking is being attacked would seem the MOST LOGICAL place to defend it.

If your family member were being mugged, would you go 3 cities over and try to defend them from there?

Furthermore, nicotine isn't just present in tobacco. It has measurable levels in all the vegetables we eat too. Should we ban corn & potatoes next? Maybe we're at risk being around someone who cuts up french fries, too!

[medboy48]

Lets keep going i'll start this one. Oh no so that means our washing machine now has 5th hand smoke stuck in it,Oh No!! Wait,that dirty water goes down the drain? Oh SH'T now all these years we've been drinking 6th HAND SMOKE. And i'm still not DEAD!!! Jesus Christ, Get off it,let it GO!! Think happy thoughts, This world is getting so messed up with people like this.. All this Negativity. Quit worrying people. Live a little!!!!

[DJDiscDrive]

is this to ban smokers walking into a public place wether they smoke or not completely?,to use a car as an example to id rather my child spend an hour with a smoker then on a car park around cars, and if this is true then its true for perfumes, air freshners what damage do they do? i was brought up in a heavy smoking enviroment im fine , the smokers are fine and are alive and well in there 80s and 90s the only deaths have been non smokers due to drink and being fat..its a joke

[wallycard]

The notion that "our parents smoked and we are fine" is erroneous and misleading because no two individuals are equal in their response to a given stress. Also, at times, the consequences of parental smoking may surface after 1-2 generations.

[DJDiscDrive]

yeah cancer and lung dieases doesnt run in my family i do have a horrible reaction to perfumes and air freshners though sneezing etc i agree we are all diffrent someone whos prone to cancer and lung dieases should never smoke and avoid smokers,cars ,paint fumes ,industral estates etc to reduce there risks but in my case this doesnt effect me though health warnings on wieght and alcohol would though i dont drink as im already aware

[TheObliterator92]

What is this crap, it just gives the liberals another excuse to control peoples actions.

[wallycard]

is it possible that researchers are simply trying to promote health?

[TheObliterator92]

It could be both, but the liberals will just use it as an excuse to control the American population.