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by decafninja
1262 days ago
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I’ve seen many couples where the woman is a nonsmoker but the man is a relentless chain smoker. Does second hand smoke play into this statistic? I know second hand smoke has been downplayed in recent years, but in this case we’re not talking about occasionally being exposed to smoke, but rather sharing and breathing the same smoke filled air with a smoker. This also seems to depend on country and culture. In some cultures, it seems most nonsmoking women would instantly disqualify a smoking man as a partner, but in others it doesn’t seem to be quite the same dealbreaker. |
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second hand smoke is a known risk factor.
still it doesn't explain the difference, which is rather large.
the most probable explanation is that women are more exposed or more susceptible to some other risk factor than men.
A wild guess, for example, could be: women are in charge of cooking and are exposed to the fireplace wood smoke. There are studies associating fireplace wood smoke to an increase of breast cancer. [1]
Indoor pollution is also thought to be harmful for respiratory system health.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5744698/