Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

And here is the point that is more important than all the rest: while we do have the right
to kill ourselves, and while we do have the right to use whatever destructive addictions
we wish to do so, we do not have the right to kill others in the process. And make no
mistake, my Friends – that is exactly what smokers are doing to everyone around them
whenever they choose to light up.
Secondhand smoke contains most of the 69 cancer-causing compounds found in
originally inhaled smoke. Even the EPA, notorious friend to many large toxin-producing
corporations, has classified secondhand smoke as a carcinogen since 1992. And a study
published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that nonsmokers exposed to
secondhand smoke were 25 percent more likely to have coronary heart diseases compared
to nonsmokers not exposed to that same smoke.
In essence, it is important for smokers and non-smokers alike to realize that smoking is
not only suicide … Smoking is murder.
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