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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified secondhand smoke as a Group A carcinogen, which means there's sufficient evidence that it causes cancer in humans, according to the American Cancer Society (news - web sites). The EPA has given the Group A designation to only 15 other pollutants, including asbestos, radon and benzene.
Each year, secondhand smoke in the United States is responsible for an estimated 35,000 to 40,000 deaths from heart disease in people who are not smokers. It's also to blame for about 3,000 lung cancer deaths in nonsmoking adults, and 150,000 to 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections in children younger than 18 months of age, the American Cancer Society says.
The 1986 Surgeon General's Report on The Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking declared that secondhand smoke causes disease, including lung cancer, in healthy nonsmokers.
And when compared with the children of nonsmoking parents, children of parents who smoke have more frequent respiratory infections, more respiratory problems, and slower development of lung function as the lung matures.
The U.S. Surgeon General's report also found that separating smokers and nonsmokers within the same air space may reduce, but does not eliminate, the exposure to nonsmokers of secondhand smoke.

Where to begin?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified secondhand smoke as a Group A carcinogen

And the federal judiciary system has already called them on this little "fact".

Each year, secondhand smoke in the United States is responsible for an estimated 35,000 to 40,000 deaths from heart disease in people who are not smokers. It's also to blame for about 3,000 lung cancer deaths in nonsmoking adults, and 150,000 to 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections in children younger than 18 months of age, the American Cancer Society says.

Here we go with the figures but no supporting evidence, much less proof!

The 1986 Surgeon General's Report on The Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking declared that secondhand smoke causes disease, including lung cancer, in healthy nonsmokers.

Again, where is the proof? And what about the lung cancer for people that are NOT smokers or exposed to ETS. Where does THAT come from? Enquiring minds want to know.

The U.S. Surgeon General's report also found that separating smokers and nonsmokers within the same air space may reduce, but does not eliminate, the exposure to nonsmokers of secondhand smoke.

DUHH... Exposure does NOT mean harm.

The 1986 Surgeon General's Report on The Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking declared that secondhand smoke causes disease, including lung cancer, in healthy nonsmokers.

And the World Health Organization, doing the largest study ever, 10 years later - says the total opposite.

People do not acknowledge the fact that these are epidemiologic studies - they show possible correlation - they do not show cause. additionally they must be statistically significant risk ratios for those correlations.

They DON'T exist.