Passive smoking vs being in a car.?

If you believe 100% in the recent statistics used on an advert concerning secondhand smoking deaths in Europe it means that this year in the U.K. you will be more than twice as likely to die in a car accident than by passive smoking.

The question i'm asking is, if you are one of those people who are extremely concerned about passive smoking and how it effects your health and chances of an early death shouldn't you also, logically, not get in to a car at all as you are twice as likely not to see the year out that way than by enhaling cigarette smoke?

I'm not looking for an argument about second hand smoking, just wondered what peoples thoughts would be on this.

The second you start a car up you are putting more pollution into the atmosphere in 30 minutes than 10 smokers do in a lifetime of smoking.
It is not the tobacco that harms, but the chemicals in it.
More people contract cancer from chemicals ( sprays on food, hair spray, paint, factory exhausts, etc, than from smoking.

i wold prefer to be in a car. that way if theres a crash te pain is either generally short term or if i'm gonna die quick. Rather than long and painful lung cancer

i think the stupid minority who got smoking in pubs banned should read this

do you know what its like to sit in a room full of smokers when you are a non smoker?

its disgusting and makes me feel sick so its not just the affects of passive smoking but also the way i feel and smell afterwards

so my answer is in a car as then it my choice

Your statistically more likely to die on the beach than get killed by a shark in the sea, but we still go to the beach to sunbathe and gor for a swim, don't we?
In the UK you're more likely to get cancer from breathing inner city smog than from smoking, but they don't ban cars do they?
Why worry? Do those things you want to do and avoid the things you're concerned about. Jumping out of an airplane with a giant handkerchief strapped to your back doesn't seem like a clever idea, but I still do that.

Second hand smoke is obnoxious and people who provide it are rude and unthinking.

Diving in a car is a choice I make no one forces it upon me.

So for your arguments sake... second hand smoke could be considered murder and getting in a car suicide!

Passive smoking only affects people who are regularly around smokers, over a long-term period. People who can't avoid it (eg. Bar staff) are likely to feel the effects over a number of years. Hence, the banning of smoking in bars is a great idea.
Other than as an occupational hazard, 'passive smoking' is bo**ocks. Don't like being in a smokey room? Leave the room. Hate it when all your friends are smoking and you smell bad? Get new friends.
I'm a smoker by the way.

Your argument would only apply if there was no purpose (other than pleasure) for all car journeys. But most car journeys do serve a purpose.....getting people from A to B.

Passive smoking? Is that the one that smokes or the one getting the other ends smoke? anyhow if you do not like the smoke then stay away from places that do. It should be up to you if you own a business to if you want to smoke or cater to those that do or not. Not afraid to die but do not like smoke either. But in some places that is what is thier so stay away if you do not like the smoke. All the statistics can be manipulated any way any how.

if we listened to everything that's supposed to be bad for us we wouldn't eat anything ,,drink anything,, or even leave the house but again we would have to leave the house because there are loads of things in the home we need to be cautious of as well IE microwaves computers mobiles

This is a difficult question as I have just stopped smoking two weeks ago, and if it was OK with the driver at the time, I would have lit up!!
Not even thinking of the other person.......

Now that I can smell it, and taste it, other people's smoke does irritate me and causes me to cough...... I don't have a clue as to how much the other person would be inhaling... It does make me think though!!! and your question, has made me think differently too..... It really is unfair on the non smoker if it can cause lung damage.... Take care Jean

If people are so afriad of running into people's smoke everytime they go out, then there is only one solution, and it's a simple one. STAY HOME!!!.
If something bothers you so much, why do you constantly go places where there is smoking? Your home apparantly is smoke free, why don't you stay there, and stop your whining.