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it just doesn't make sense!
100 years ago, NOBODY died of lung cancer because they didn't even know it exsisted! people 100 years ago smoked heavily too. Now all of a sudden people can get lung cancer? we're not any different then the people 100 years ago. Also I am a non smoker I live with my mom and her boyfriend, I've looked it up and have asked many questions about "second hand smoke" apparently even though I TRY to get away from the smoke I am still breathing it in even when I go to my room? is this true? I cant leave my house to get away from it, my parents don't care whether I talk to them or not so talking to them does NOO good.
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It makes all of the sense.
100 years ago we didn't spray our tobacco crops with as many pesticides as we do today.
We didn't whiten the cigarette paper with as such strong chemicals.
We didn't eat foods that were shot up with hormones, sprayed with flavor enhancers, or fed crop that was doused in pesticides.
Our bodies can only take so much, in my opinion. If you smoke 1 cigarette a month it's likely to not do too much damage. But if you smoke 1 a day, the effects are much greater. I feel cancer goes well beyond one problem. A smoker might not get lung cancer if they lead otherwise very healthy and natural lives. We don't know that though but that doesn't really exist in our society any more.
100 years ago? Maybe. They didn't have as much processed, well, anything. They didn't eat until they were stuffed full and nearly gagging from it--they ate sensibly. They didn't eat bags of doritos for dinner. They didn't go outside and spray pesticides out their back door to keep the mosquitoes down this year. They didn't pop pills because they felt sad or because they felt "too" energetic. They didn't shove drying cotton up their vaginas that came from pesticide sprayed plants and bleached white. They didn't have nuclear fallout or radiation from when bombs were dropped halfway around the world.
We live extremely different lives now. We rely on some man-made things that didn't exist 100 years ago. Our bodies haven't changed so much that with can withstand everything that we're doing it to it now.
You won't get away from the second hand smoke unless you leave the house and go some place with no smokers. The smoke can slide in through cracks of doors and windows. It can waft in when you open the door to enter or exit your bedroom. Allowing no smoking in or near your room does cut down on you inhalation though but not nearly enough to deem your room as safe and nontoxic.
Is it possible for you to do a little...home project? Create anti-smoking signs and posters. Make a big project board of non-smoking. Include scary, scary pictures of smoker's lungs. Put education information on why smoking is harmful and how it hurts the people around the smoker. Sometimes seeing the images is greater than just hearing about it. Just like with STDs--you might think they sorta, kinda sound scary but when you see the images you're like, "HOLY CRAP!"
And know that smoking is seriously addictive. Just like alcohol or even heroine. It takes a long time to stop and even then they will always be a "recovering" person. They will always have that urge. My dad tried to stop smoking. He successfully quit but nearly 6 months later the cravings were still there and he broke down and started up again. Just like alcoholism--the desire doesn't ever leave. It's a hard habit and drug to quit so you have to be supportive if they ever do decide to try.
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Wow! Maybe it's because they were all too busy dying of "old age". Nobody's died of THAT since 1951, though.
People were less specific in their cause of death determinations before. It wasn't that it didn't exist, they just didn't see a need to go poking around to find out.
Yes, you're being exposed to second-hand smoke. Smoke can move freely through cracks in doors, or when you open and close your door, so yes, you can be exposed when in your room. If you can smell it, you're inhaling it.
Will you die of lung cancer? Only if you plan on living there for a long time. You will have damage done to you by the exposure you receive, but if you move out as soon as you can and don't smoke, you'll be fine. Your lungs can regenerate from the damage done. Within 15 years, it'll be like you were never exposed, but the negative effects will start going away immediately.
Your best bet is to keep your room as a safe zone; keep the windows open, weather permitting, put a towel across the bottom of the door, keep a fan by the window. You may be able to put up something like weather stripping on your bedroom door to help keep the smoke out.
The people who die from second hand smoke exposure are often people like waitresses who work in smoky bars for 20 years, people who marry smokers, and people with lung disease. If you get out of the house, you'll be fine.
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Actually, people discovered and labeled 'cancer' eons ago. Hippocrates was a thinker and doctor in ancient greece, and he described cancer and it's treatments. Queen Mary was said to have died of stomach cancer by some of her physicians at the time (that was 1558).
So you see, the word and the illness 'cancer' has been around for a very long time - it's only been in the last 40 years or so that we've actually started to understand it, and treat it.
There wasn't too much point in talking much, or worrying much about cancer when there was no way to treat it (and when the life expectancy was only 40 or 50 years of age). Now that we live longer and better than ever before, cancer has become something to treat or avoid, whereas it was just a mystery and fact of life for centuries before.
There is nothing really new I can tell you about second hand smoke. It's their house, and even if what they are doing is very wrong, you still don't really have the power to stop them. Investing in an air purifier for where you sleep might help, but in the end, the best thing you can do is make peace with it. There are risks in all of our lives. It's impossible to avoid these risks all together. Although there are risks associated with second hand smoke, it's certainly no guarantee of getting cancer. Also, as our understanding develops and treatments improve, there are more and more reasons to be optimistic.
Don't let something you can't control make you sick with worry. Take the reasonable persuasions you can, and then try to accept that life is always risky and often unfair.
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If people didn't know cancer exsisted 100 years ago, they could have had it and not known it! So cancer has been around since then but people didn't know that they had it. Yes you can get cancer fromsecond hand smoke- actually second hand smoke is just as bad, if not worse, than smoking a cigarette. Get away from the smoke!! It's your health and it's important!
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