>>>I mean, the generation of our parents and grandparents were smoking so much and everywhere that we must be dead already.
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>>This is the same argument you hear about how we didn't use to have seatbelts and bike helmets and so forth, but we survived. The problem with the argument, of course, is that only those of us who survived are here to talk about it.
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>True... but then since so many of us have survived (I don't see the population being decimated), it can't be as dangerous as they claim. It's a matter of proportion, and I think they are exaggerating.
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>Two out of our three kids are staunch non-smokers. I think we've convinced them not to start. One smokes, though.

Today there is a report that women's perfume compounds have been found in umbilical cord blood. Followed by the statement "no evidence that the compounds are harmful to the fetus".
I guess smoke compounds being "known" to affect adults let them conclude differently with smoking.