Stories From Second Hand Smoke Victims

This video is for the purpose of me recounting my experiences with second hand smoke and I hope others will make video responses to it and tell their stories too. Take care.

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• infections
• colds
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[mark1m]

I had really bad ear infections as a kid as well, and had to take medication a couple times. I didn't know anyone who smoked though.

Ear infections in children have been on the rise in the past couple decades whereas smoking has been on the decline.

Im curious as to how exactly you know it was 2nd hand smoke?

[WebAnt]

Both parents smoked and they took me to smoke filled bars. Second hand smoke is well known to cause ear infections in children. I had a lot of them so I just did the math. Also,the fact that second hand smoke set off ear infections in me even as an adult was a dead giveaway. Take care.

[0spiker]

@WebAnt

Then how is it smokers don't get these same infections? You know being in "smoke filled bars etc.

[WebAnt]

@0spiker I suspect that some smokers do but many are just not susceptible to them. Some smokers get hacking coughs instead of ear infections while others end up with bronchitis or even cancer. Smoke affects smokers and nonsmokers in various ways but it is pretty much a slam dunk that if affects everyone in some way or another. Thanks for the comment and Happy Holidays.

[trackend]

My wife has been a respiratory nurse for 40 years she can guess how many cigarettes mothers have per day by the stink coming from their babies cloths when they bring them in saying there child has yet another chest complaint

My wife has to be professional about it but sometimes she says she would love to just call them idiots and call it straight forward child abuse

[WebAnt]

@WebAnt I recently had one guy tell me that he thought I was about twenty five and a forty year old guy was surprised to find out that I am three years older than him. :-)

[0spiker]

@willdav713 Not sure why your arguing this point with me. I agree .

[willdav713]

@0spiker More minors are smoking when bans are in place as the cigarette butts are thrown out by the resturant, and bars they are littered outside A lot of minors like to break laws and challenge authority. Bans are not the solution, let the market decide. Now that is an American idea!!! They will ban alcohol, sugar, trans fat, and salt next who knows the sky is the limit for nannydrones. Oh wait trans fat ban in NaziYork.

[willdav713]

BS I got ear infections all of my life and was never around smokers then before I was 9 and started to occasionally smoke (reburns). When you get a cold from high levels of Mountain Cedar and the mucus starts to develop in your inner ear canal you have build up and that leads to infection. Secondhand smoke doesn't cause the common cold. You can never avoid having a cold, and never avoid having an ear infection. To blame it on smoke is ludicris. What about BBQ's?

[0spiker]

@WebAnt 2

I want to emphasize that the question is whether smoke, drawn through a filter, into the lungs and exhaled(Which is what second hand smoke is) is dangerous and not whether it "affects everyone in some way or another". If second hand smoke triggers someone's allergies, for example, that is quite different than

it being a public danger. Notice there is no campaign to eliminate cars because of exhaust fumes.

[0spiker]

@WebAnt Clearly smokers get hacking coughs, but that is from the way they take in the smoke. A smoker inhales directly from the cigarette and pulls the smoke into his lungs. This ends up filtering the smoke twice: Once through the filter and once through his lungs. Second hand smoke is twice filtered. The question here is why smokers who are also exposed to second hand smoke don't end up with the same problems as non smokers. This isn't answered y pointing to the effects of first hand smoke.