[robertpaulsen]

So if I were to smoke 1-2 Marlboro cigarettes a day, that wouldn't hurt me? And if it isn't harmful to me, then it certainly isn't harmful to the non-smokers around me. Therefore, I can smoke my Marlboros in public as long as no one else in the area is smoking? Try it, just one time.

[DAnconia55]

Cigarettes contain all sorts of bad chemicals... put there by the tobacco companies.
A more accurate comparison would be a cigar or pipe tobacco.

Tobacco can even contain traces of uranium, if I'm not mistaken (It leeches it from the soil).

[NoLongerLurker]

So if I were to smoke 1-2 Marlboro cigarettes a day, that wouldn't hurt me? And if it isn't harmful to me, then it certainly isn't harmful to the non-smokers around me.

Both of the above statements are coreect.

There are essentially no detectable ill effects in people who smoke 1-2 cigarettes per day. It takes 15-20 pack-years of smoking to show a significant increase in incidence of cancer, emphysema or heart disease.

The effects of the secondary smoke of 1-2 cigarettes per day on others would be undetectable on any basis.

Except for your hysteria on the subject.