Meeroken volwassenen is niet ongezond
In een artikel in een dagblad in Seattle vraagt de journalist zich af waarom er zo’n kabaal wordt gemaakt over de gevaren van passief roken. Alle onderzoeken, inclusief die van het Amerikaanse RIVM (EPA) en de American Cancer Society, wijzen in die richting, zegt de journalist.
“There is no credible scientific evidence that ‘secondhand smoke’ causes illness in adults.”
That may be a shocking statement to many who believe otherwise, but one of the largest scientific studies to assess the effects of passive exposure, funded by the American Cancer Society, came to that conclusion a decade ago. With the advent of new test equipment and more accurate methods, it is becoming even more apparent that the risk from environmental tobacco smoke is much lower than advertised, and for purposes of regulation, non-existent.
According to several recent field studies, a bartender in a smoking-permitted tavern (with no smoke-abatement systems in place) will inhale the approximate equivalent of one-500th of a cigarette per shift. These measurements were taken by means of monitors worn by bartenders and waitresses, with the collected respirable suspended particulate analyzed in a laboratory. These findings correlate with measurements cited by the Environmental Protection Agency Report on Secondhand Smoke.
Eveneens veroorzaakt, volgens diezelfde onderzoeken, het dagelijks actief roken van maximaal 3 sigaretten geen gezondheidsschade.
