Recent public service announcements have equated the effectiveness of No Smoking sections at restaurants with the effectiveness of a No Urinating section at a swimming pool.
In other words, not really. Effective, that is.
The latest news about Dana Reeve seems to support that. She's Mrs. Superman. Christopher Reeve's widow.
According to the Associated Press, the 44 year old actress is "one of a growing number of non-smoking women under the age of 51 being diagnosed with lung cancer."
Her doctors say reasearchers are trying to figure out the cause of the spike. I say that means they're clueless.
But, common sense says, second-hand smoke!
My experience with actors (high school and college) as well as journalist, is that even if they don't smoke, they second-hand smoke.
In other words, during breaks they hang out with the smokers, inhaling all that toxic smoke just as deeply as if they had put the cancer stick to their own lips.
And this is coming from a former second-hand smoker who's still trying to break the habit. =)
But what do I know. I don't have the medical degree that allows me to say, "I'm trying to figure out the cause."
Nimitz' Lady
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