Air Pollution

What should you really fear?



So much has been made of the dangers of second-hand smoke. So much that it has been banned in bars and restaurants in entire cities across the globe.
















Some places have even banned you from smoking in your car on their parking lot. Even with all the windows rolled up.









Everyone has gotten angry at Tobacco.
If second-hand smoke causes cancer, what does this stuff do?











ADDENDUM:
This recent posting from the Courthouse News Service (see links section):

Power Plants' Mercury Emissions Hurt Kids, Parents Claim
BALTIMORE (CN) - Sigman-Aldrich and other polluters have done neurological damage to children by polluting the air with Thimoseral, which contains toxic amounts of mercury, five couples claim in Federal Court. The emissions allegedly came from electric power plants. The parents seek more than $1.7 billion in damages. (The complaint, filed by Thomas Yost Jr. of Baltimore, was filed one week before the U.S. Senate refused, by 51-47 vote, to reject the Bush administration’s new EPA rules that would wait until 2018 to phase in controls of mercury emissions from coal-generated power plants.)
Also named as defendants are American International Chemical, Spectrum Laboratory Products, Eli Lilly & Co., Merck & Co., Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline, Wyeth, Baxter Healthcare Corp., Baltimore Gas & Electric Co., and Constellation Energy Group