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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Janice Shell who wrote (14753)1/5/1998 12:17:00 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Does incense cause cancer? I certainly have not heard so, but would stop using it if it did. Since fireplaces and incense are part of my religious rituals--protecting myself from evil spirits--the issue is complicated by some freedom of religion issues.

I think you probably have to be currently NON-smoking to realize just how noxious second-hand smoke can be. As I pointed out in another post, though, it does kill thousands of spouses of non-smoking spouses of smokers every year in America. While this might be negligible compared to automotive and industrial pollution, it certainly is not negligible for those affected.

When my nephew was born, there were eight doctors present, including a pediatric cardiologist. His heart stopped during his delivery five times. He did not do very well in school academically, and he and his brother both have suffered from asthma since they were small children. All of these problems are directly attributable to his mother's very heavy smoking, during her pregnancies and afterwards, and she and her husband have refused to stop smoking around their children even though doctors more recently have advised them to do so. I do think smoking around children is child abuse, and there have been custody cases recently where being in a smoke-filled home was considered in the judges' decisions, rightfully so in my opinion.

On the other hand, I certainly would defend the personal right to smoke in cases where the health of others is NOT endangered.
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