Some get worse than flu from secondhand smoke

Publication Date: 11/05/2009

Lydia, you seem to just assume that people against smoking do not have reasons for doing so beyond some facts that are told to us. Some of us get into severe coughing fits because of their “right” to smoke. Others have asthma and get worse symptoms. Then some of us get sick for weeks with flu-like symptoms by breathing too much cigarette smoke, simply because smokers have some right to puff their tobacco that blatantly violates our right to breathe and makes us sicker than the flu does. Oh, and if you think I am allergic to stuff burning you’re dead wrong because wood, leaves, grass and other stuff do not bother me in the least. Unlike how you seem to think, we have very good reasons for going against smoking. You would be against it too if you got sick for a week or more just by inhaling some smoke.

Adam Bundy

Sophomore in the School of Management