A Little Knowledge ...

Ignore, for a moment, the calls for Billie Piper to be sectioned, locked up or sterilised, along with the plethora of other ad homs and vile insults towards smokers.

Because Daily Mail crazies readers, knowledgeable as they are, inevitably sometimes come out with valuable conclusions based on solid, incontrovertible science.

There ARE statistics that prove second hand smoke is just as bad as smoking yourself.

- Lynn, UK, 22/7/2010 9:23

OK, noted.

hugging a child while covered in a layer of chemicals deposited by smoking, or lifting you child with the hands you held your cigarettes in is even worse than 2nd hand smoking, as the chemicals are transfered though contact

- ton, london, 22/7/2010 8:26

Excellent!

Active smokers are in the clear, then. A 40 per day habit is no more dangerous than getting the occasional whiff of someone's clothes after they've been outside for a gasper, apparently.

QED.

Puff away folks. Just keep clear of surfaces and clothes on which smoke may have landed.