Second Hand Smoke Myth

I'm the first person to admit that smoking is bad for your health. I believe that second hand smoke in a car or heavy smoking in a house for a long period of time is harmful to children. That's why my wife and I will not smoke with our kids in the car and we smoke on the front porch. Lung cancer, mouth, and throat cancers. Yeah I can buy it. Smoking contributes to those. But colon cancer? Come on. In fact I have heard that not only does smoking increase your chances at getting colon cancer, it also increases your children and childrens children in getting colon cancer..... Now how the hell can they know that. That is unless there has been a study going on for the last 80 years that I'm not aware of. Back in 1992 the EPA came out with a statement that second hand smoke kills 3000 people every year. This was BEFORE the EPA had finished its research. They were just guessing. In 1993 their study could not produce 3000 deaths so they just increased their margin of error for the study and that made the 3000 deaths statement true. Or at least twisted to fit the truth that they had created. I am all for keeping cigarettes out of the hands of kids. It's a dirty addictive habit that all people would be better off without. HOWEVER!! That is not what America is about. The world would be better off without porn, guns, alcohol, etc. too but you won't see this guy mounting any crusade to ban them. I think that people should be allowed to smoke. I believe that they should enforce the littering laws and keep people from putting butts everywhere but people should be allowed to smoke outside if they so choose. This crap about banning people from the streets and parking lots is a bunch of crap. Public land is land that the People have paid for. If I want to responsibly smoke in a park then god damnit I should be able to. If I want to smoke at the beach then I should be allowed. I figured that was going to be it for the nonsmoking crowd. Turns out there is still money to be made in the anti tobacco fight. The lawyers and stupid fucks of the world are going to squeeze this turnip until it shits. People are now suing, (and winning) due to second hand smoke exposure. Now there was a study done not too long ago that said that waitresses in bars are exposed to the equivalent of smoking 6 cigarettes in a years time. Now wait a minute. There was some bitch on the radio who just told me that second hand smoke is the 3rd leading cause of death in America. Wait a minute. 1. Heart disease. 2. Cancers. 3. Second Hand Smoke?! Do they think we are retards? Oh wait. Most of us are. Thats the only thing that explains Faux News, Rush Limpbald, and reality TV. I don't advocate smoking. What I demand is not to be lied to or to be treated like a fucking dunce. Tell me the fucking truth. Don't come to me in the name of saving peoples lives with the intention of making obsene profits. If some stupid fuck wants to smoke and jeapordize his health then let them do it. We don't have crusades of people against skydiving. I would say that the deathrate for those who skydive is much higher than people who smoke. Or drive a fucking car for that matter. Driving a car is the most hazardous thing people do in their entire lives with the exception of the crab fishermen up in Alaska evidently, and noone gives a rats ass! Accidents, in case you are wondering, is the third greatest cause of death in the US. All this time we have been eliminating causes of death. People don't die of small pox, anymore. People stopped dying of the plague. No more skurvy or rickets or mumps. So these lawyers make up reasons to sue deep pockets like say, Phillip Morris! Thousands of peoples lives are ruined and in fact ended by alcohol every year but noone is suing them. It's time is comming unfortunately.