What is your experience with secondhand smoke?
I have not been regularly exposed to secondhand smoke - 22.2% - 2 votes
I was exposed to secondhand smoke on a regular basis - 33.3% - 3 votes
I was exposed to secondhand smoke and have advanced PCa - 22.2% - 2 votes
I was exposed to secondhand smoke and have a weakened immune system - 0.0% - 0 votes
I was or am now a smoker - 22.2% - 2 votes
None of the above - 0.0% - 0 votes
Tim G
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Posted 9/18/2014 6:24 PM (GMT -5)
Many studies have shown the deleterious effect of secondhand smoke on our immune system. I'm curious about
your own experience with secondhand smoke and prostate cancer. Personally, I have seldom been exposed to secondhand smoke, since neither of my parents were smokers and my wife doesn't smoke.
Post Edited (Tim G) : 9/18/2014 5:31:20 PM (GMT-6)
John T
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Posts : 4315
Posted 9/18/2014 7:47 PM (GMT -5)
The last study I saw indicated a 100% increase in risk for 2nd hand smoke and cancer. When I looked further into it, the risks went from 1.5 in a million to 3 per million. True, a 100% increase, but in the big picture, insignificant.
Purgatory
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Posted 9/18/2014 11:57 PM (GMT -5)
I lived from age 0-18 with two chain smoking parents.
I am also an ex-smoker, smoked a total of 15 years out of my life at various times.
I have a compromised immune system, and I am dealing with advanced PC, but not saying nor can I prove a link to either my own former smoking or being subjected to years of second hand smoke.
I think while a possible link could be likely, I think it would be hard to prove with certainty.
Posted 9/19/2014 3:00 AM (GMT -5)
My husband from 0-18 grew up in a "chimney". You could move a picture on the wall in their house and see a white spot where it went. His clothes reeked of smoke. If I ever wore his football jersey or jackets etc. I too would stink. They did not have freebreeze back in the day..lol He couldnt even smell it and thought I was being a brat until we got married and moved away. His mom would send mail to us and hed just gag when he would open it. Interesting the whole second hand smoke thing...I wonder if there is a link to pc and diet coke he used to drink tons of it.
Posted 9/19/2014 7:04 AM (GMT -5)
I'm a longer term smoker.... And I've always had kitty kats that who for the most most part lived long normal lives.
I would think that if second hand smoke were a really bad deal, that these little critters would croke much sooner.