Here is my conspiracy theory, the tobacco industry became the scapegoat, the Lieutenant Calley if you will. We are being killed slowly and surely by what we eat and drink. In order to make livestock grow faster they are factory farmed and fed every kind of drug and crap to aid the process. What comes out of the ground is just as bad, fed with chemical fertilizers or the crap from the livestock which is already full of crap, sprayed with pesticides, the soil depleted. It is impossible (here anyhow) to buy any consumable liquid (except some beer) in anything except plastic which is probably carcinogenic, especially if it sits in the sun a bit before it arrives in your local supermarket. Where by the way your meat is dyed red and the fruit and veg is sprayed with all sorts of stuff to make it look pretty and never turn brown.
I could go on but why bother. This is what I worry about, not the fact that I might be inhaling a minute portion of smoke from a guy smoking 4 feet away from me. But if the big money keeps the population freaking about second hand smoke, they can get away with all the other stuff that is going on.
I lived in NYC in the 70’s, that was when I had to stop wearing my hard contacts. There was so much crap in the air, my eyelids became glued to my contacts. So I think what Evelyn said has a lot of truth in it, the air in cities is gonna get you just as quickly. Maybe you should start wearing a gas mask???
But hey I have already quit, actually July 31 1990 was the last time I had a cigarette, alcohol or any mood altering substance except caffeine and sugar which I quit about a month ago. Hell, I will probably live forever!