For the love of all that is holy, THIRD HAND SMOKE !

OK for the record I used to smoke a pack a day for 15 years. I quit 10 years ago and now have an occasional cigar with a bottle of wine. I live with a smoker. I am not a rabid anti-smoker.

Smoking is legal. I am sure it's bad for you. Alcohol is legal. I am sure it's bad for you.

When will doctors and scientists stop finding something else to protect us from and move on. Everyone knows smoking kills you. Smoke is bad, move on, nothing to see here. By products of smoking are bad for you, move on, nothing to see here. Most everything withing 10 feet of you was made from chemicals and processes that if exposed directly to would be very harmful. All of the talking heads and smart people doing the research about third hand smoke create and consume lots of things that are bad for you.

Either go live in a bubble or just accept that the world is much more harmful and dangerous because of human activity. Also accept the fact that if we hadn't developed all of these dangerous, deadly chemicals and poisons, that provide us with and extraordinary quality of life, then the talking heads would be bemoaning "Study shows lions killed and ate a record number of humans this year. Bears now only account for 10 percent of humans eaten. No cave is safe. In other news, smoke from cooking fires suspected to kill more than lions and bears combined (Oh My)." [ I just couldn't resist ]

I just want to know how "Something dangerous to the participants (the smoker) and everyone with in 20 feet of them (second hand smoke), and everyone who enters the room for the next 30 days (third hand smoke)" is still legal.

WAIT A MINUTE ! Damn to protect smoker, the second hand victims, and the third hand victims, those people should know better to smoke or be near it. What about the people who unknowingly TOUCH third hand smoke residue and transfer it to someone who has TRIED to avoid all tobacco residue.

Forth hand smoke victims have rights too !

Don't get me wrong I am in no way proposing to outlaw tobacco products like we tried with alcohol. If tobacco is so bad then get rid of it. If we don't want to get rid of it STOP WHINING about how bad it is and accept that the world is a pretty good place to be even it filled with poisons of our own making.

Alan