How many people die annually from 2nd hand smoke USA?

Answer 1

Answer 1:

Anyone can name a dozen people who have died from primary smoking, because it really does kill people. So if Second-hand smoke really kills people too, it should be possible to identify at least a couple of them.

So I ask, can you name three or four people who have died from second hand smoke?"

The numbers usually thrown around are 3,000 deaths per year directly from second hand smoke and another 63,000 deaths associated with second-hand smoke.

Strange. Over a million deaths in the past twenty years, and yet, no one can't name a single person.

We are also told that each cigarette you smoke takes 13 minutes off your life.

Thirteen minutes? Not nine, not fourteen, but precisely thirteen? Those are the kind of nonsense numbers no real scientist would be quoting. A real scientist would say something like "cigarettes increase the risk of dying prematurely."

No one can argue that, because that's a real, honest to goodness fact. But smoking seems to have no effect on some people (everyone knows someone who lived to be 90+ while smoking several packs a day) and a devastating effect on others.

The fact is there has never been a documented death related to second hand smoke.

None! Zero!

Answer 2:

Zero. Plenty of people have died from smoking, but not a one from second hand smoke. It's all rubbish that schools and media feed you. You are probably a smoker that doesn't want people to think second hand smoke kills people. You are both idiots that looks for all of the reasons why people should stop smoking and you try to make them false. I know that second hand smoke is dangerous for a fact.

One, if you knew that it was dangerous, FOR A FACT, you would have listed it. Two, I know for a fact that smoking is bad for the person who smokes. But second hand smoke is a campaign to try to get people to quit smoking through more guilt. There is no evidence that it exists.

Answer 3:

It is estimated that 53,000 Americans actually DIE from second-hand smoke every year. This includes babies who die from crib death, husbands or wives of smokers, who die from heart attacks or lung cancer from their spouse's smoke, and children who died from untreatable pneumonia, which could have been prevented if the parents were not smoking in the home. Thousands of workers die from being exposed to smoke in the workplace.

Answer 4:

First of all, you can't smoke in the workplace anymore. As far as the other statistics, there are no studies, and no actually evidence linking it to second hand smoke. Millions of people get pneumonia and some of them will die, but not necessarily because there is a smoker in their life. Until there is a definite link, it's all just hype. Sorry. That's not real evidence.

Answer 5:

Coincidence does not equal cause. Just because someone hangs around smokers and gets lung cancer does not mean the second hand smoke caused the cancer. Just like with most cancers, there are multiple ways to get it. Although primary smoke does unquestionably cause cancer and is responsible for most cases of lung cancer, it is not the only cause.

Answer 6:

Do you know what second-hand smoke is? Second-hand smoke is the combination of the smoke that the smoker exhales and the smoke from the unfiltered lit end of the cigarette. This smoke has more than 4000 chemicals and more than 60 carcinogens. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, there is no safe level of exposure to second-hand smoke. Obviously people think first-hand smoke is more dangerous but first-hand smoke is classified as only the smoke being inhaled from the filtered end of the cigarette. A smoker, however, is at a higher risk to lung cancer and of that sort because he/she is inhaling first-hand smoke and second-hand smoke. There is no doubt that second-hand smoke is poisonous gas. There are people who die from second-hand smoke and you better start believing it. Zero people dying from second-hand smoke? Really?

Answer 7

The 53,000 deaths reported by the CDC was summed using the idea that, "Anyone who catches lung cancer, Asthma, or any other disease related to smoking is considered a second hand smoke victim." The EPA, CDC, and US Surgeon General are definitely using scare tactics which is obvious when the Surgeon General made the ridiculous statement, "There is no safe distance from second hand smoke". There is also no safe number of stairs you can climb without being in danger of falling. Goes without saying.

Every scientific case study done on second hand smoke either concludes that it's link to lung cancer and other smoking related illness is either non existent or too small to be scientifically significant. The link to the actual case studies are below.

I welcome challenges to the evidence, but please restrain from making general quotes it just wastes everyone's time on such a polluted subject and caries no weight without the scientific information behind it. Please post links to actual evidence in scientific case studies.

- British Medical Journal Case Study

World Health Organization "Conclusions: Our results indicate no association between childhood exposure to ETS and lung cancer risk. We did find weak evidence of a dose-response relationship between risk of lung cancer and exposure to spousal and workplace ETS. There was no detectable risk after cessation of exposure.[JNatlCancerInst1998;90:1440-50]"

Answer 2

There's a strong positive correlation between lung (and throat, and mouth) cancer and smoking. Let's just put that up there as an indisputable fact; there is absolutely zero chance that smoking is not bad for you, and there is no known level below which smoking is "safe" (the less the better, but any is always statistically worse than none).

"Second hand smoke" is much harder to define. However, the US EPA has done epidemiology studies in women who did not smoke, but whose husbands smoked, and found they have a higher rate of lung cancer than women of similar economic status in the same locations.

The US EPA estimates that approximately 3,000 Americans die per year from lung cancer directly attributable to secondhand smoke. There's a certain amount of fuzziness in this number, but if anything it's probably low (because the studies don't take into account women whose husbands don't smoke, but who have friends who do smoke, so their cancer rate is likely higher than it would be if nobody anywhere smoked).

That doesn't QUITE answer your question, because it's limited to the US and difficult to extrapolate to other countries, but it's the best number I could find with rigorous science backing it.

It also ignores bronchitis, pneumonia, and asthma; the numbers for cases of these which are initiated or exacerbated by secondhand smoke are much higher than the number of deaths due to lung cancer (the EPA estimates at least 150,000 cases of bronchitis or pneumonia per year from secondhand smoke in children under 18 months old).

Nearly every study that purports to find the secondhand smoke risk is small or nonexistent is funded by tobacco companies, who have a vested interest in the sale and use of tobacco remaining as unrestricted as possible and are therefore likely to loudly Trumpet any study which finds low/no risk, while sweeping studies that show a statistically significant risk "under the rug."

Answer 3

The following information is from the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) and the information is hosted on the CDC website: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5425a1.htm

An estimated 38,112 lung cancer and Heart disease deaths annually were attributable to exposure to secondhand smoke. The average annual SAM estimates also included 918 deaths from smoking-attributable fires.

Note: The information quoted above is an average annual deathrate from secondhand smoke from 1997-2001.

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Answer 4

In the United States, it is estimated that about 54,000 people die from secondhand smoke each year. World wide the number is close to 600,000.

Answer 5

3000 people die each year.

Answer 6

2000ish