{"id":126,"date":"2003-05-19T02:10:39","date_gmt":"2003-05-19T10:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/05\/19\/secondhand-smoke-is-mmm-mmm-good\/"},"modified":"2003-05-19T02:10:39","modified_gmt":"2003-05-19T10:10:39","slug":"secondhand-smoke-is-mmm-mmm-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Secondhand smoke is mmm mmm good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/reason\/comments.php?id=P611_0_1_0\">The Light of Reason<\/a> discusses studies showing that secondhand smoke is harmless. One study, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-682153,00.html\">according to<\/a> the <i>Times<\/i> of London, followed married non-smokers for 40 years, and found that being married to a smoker made no difference to their odds of developing lung cancer or heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that strikes me is, if true, this is awfully good news. Isn&#8217;t it? I mean, a lot of people live with smokers (yours truly included). So shouldn&#8217;t we be happy?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes. But if it&#8217;s true that secondhand smoke is harmless, that will be an annoyance to all those anti-smoking groups, who&#8217;d hate having to admit that smokers are harming only themselves. And who have, it seems, uncritically pushed studies with questionable methodology and results.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Silber, the blogger at Light of Reason, is concerned that the various anti-smoking laws are a threat to &#8220;personal freedom.&#8221; I don\u2019t know &#8211; in light of the draconian laws against drugs like pot, LSD and cocaine (drugs that are, by most accounts, a good deal more fun than tobacco), it&#8217;s hard for me to get worked up over the anti-smoking laws. Potheads and cokeheads are being threatened with jail; in contrast, the main thrust of anti-smoking regulations seems to be to annoy smokers to death.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=cheapest-floxin-online\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Light of Reason discusses studies showing that secondhand smoke is harmless. One study, according to the Times of London, followed married non-smokers for 40 years, and found that being married to a smoker made no difference to their odds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}