On Nov 3, 1:40 pm, Tracy R. > wrote:

> Anecdotal evidence is a funny thing. For 40 years, my grandmother
> played canasta once a week with the same group of ladies; one of them,
> Paula, smoked like a chimney. All the other ladies fussed at her and
> told her the cigarettes were going to kill her; she kept smoking three
> packs a day despite their dire warnings. I saw her again a couple of
> years ago at Grandma's funeral. She was still a heavy smoker. She was
> also the only one of the "canasta girls" still alive

American cigarets put out more second-hand smoke than the smoker
inhales into their own lungs. Sitting around at a canasta table
with a smoker for 40 years is plenty of exposure.

S.