Surgeon Gen: One puff from a cig can kill you, breathing someone else's smoke once can as well

[The Straight Story]

WASHINGTON – Think the occasional cigarette won't hurt? Even a bit of social smoking — or inhaling someone else's secondhand smoke — could be enough to block your arteries and trigger a heart attack, says the newest surgeon general's report on the killer the nation just can't kick.

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"That one puff on that cigarette could be the one that causes your heart attack," said Surgeon General Regina Benjamin.

Or the one that triggers someone else's: "I advise people to try to avoid being around smoking any way that you can," she said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101209/ap_on_he_me/us_med_no_safe_smoke

First we complain about over population and then we complain about people dying...

[whistler162]

1. Sturgeon Gen: Living will kill you eventually!

[hobbit709]

2. and one peanut will kill some people.

One beesting will kill some people, etc.

Let's get a little perspective here. Probability says ONE of something will kill someone.

[Ghost Dog]

3. Gasoline Kills. n/t

[FreakinDJ]

4. With that rational we should immediately Quarantine HIV positive

1 little microbe can kill you

I hear there will be some space opening up at Guantanamo

[TreasonousBastard]

5. We need a Republican Surgeon General who...

will ignore shit like this, realizing that only about 21% of the population still smokes, and most of those are from the unemployed and otherwise less moneyed classes-- smoking is helping reduce the surplus population.

At any rate, life is the largest single cause of death.

[pipoman]

13. !

[whyverne]

6. Cigarettes cause everything!

Did you ever get the feeling that cigarettes are just the scapegoat for all the other pollutants that we've been subjected to? Like petrochemicals and all the nuclear tests. (He says as he lights his pipe)

[ejpoeta]

7. i am sorry but that is bullshit. we breathe in how much polution every damned day

from things like pesticides and car exhausts! sure enough smoking is bad for you. but not one puff of it. as with anything else long term exposure is the problem. now, i am aware of second hand smoke being problematic from my oldest being at the doctor's every week with bronchial problems. my husband never smoked around her but the sitter did. and she started having problems after awhile. i know... why didn't you just take her somewhere else? couldn't afford to take her somewhere else. but as soon as i stopped taking her there as i became a SAHM her problem cleared up. i think it opened my husband's eyes. but again, he never smoked around emily. that being said, it wasn't one instance of exposure.... but over time so the argument is crap. except in the case of asthma which could trigger an attack.

[ChumbawambaFan]

8. You know what never killed anyone? Masterbation yet somehow...

...the Surgeon General is not allowed to recommend that to teenagers.

[Zanzobar]

9. ...said the obese Surgeon General, as she

sat behind her desk, where she spends most of her sedentary life.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. A heart would have to have been in bad shape already for one puff to cause an attack.

This is like blaming a heart attack on your last double whopper and not the last 50 years of bad diet and no exercise.

[madinmaryland]

11. "breathing someone else's smoke once can [kill you] as well"

Whether someone wants to smoke in their own home is there own perogative. When it effects me and others, then it is a whole different scenario.

[letterwriter]

12. I'm anti-smoking but

That is totally ridiculous and it makes our side look stupid.

[pipoman]

14. If second hand smoke kills,

what does standing in proximity of an internal combustion engine do. I would challenge the SG to a demonstration. I will sit in a school bus filled with smokers, she can sit in her car with the exhaust piped into the cockpit...first one to bail out or die looses..Now tell me again how 2nd hand smoke is the most dangerous carcinogen on the planet..

[Bluenorthwest]

15. The President smokes like mad and hides it

The Surgeon General is a tad on the heavy side to be telling others about heart health if you ask me. She looks like the Surgeon General under Mayor McCheese.