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Originally Posted by JonoBN41
Since Tom brought it up, I checked on radon. According to the EPA's Radon site:
3) Secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of lung cancer and responsible for an estimated 3,000 lung cancer deaths every year. About 1,000 of these are people that never smoked, and about 2,000 are former smokers.
There is no explanation how they determined those 1,000 non-smokers were not - like the rest of us - exposed to radon, which they claim is ubiquitous. "Radon is found in outdoor air and in the indoor air of buildings of all kinds."
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I'm trying to figure out how they figure that 2000 former smokers are getting the lung cancer from secondhand smoke and not the cigarettes they smoked when they were smokers.
ETA: They've also found that nicotine reduces exacerbations of ulcerative colitis and some people with UC have actually been put on the nicotine patch to help with their UC (they don't recommend that they smoke though). Conversely, a very similar disease, Crohn's, has shown the opposite. Recurrences increase with tobacco use for Crohn's.