Comments on: Does living near an oil and gas well increase your risk of cancer? https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2018/04/12/does-living-near-an-oil-and-gas-well-increase-your-risk-of-cancer/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Robert Adams https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2018/04/12/does-living-near-an-oil-and-gas-well-increase-your-risk-of-cancer/#comment-217609 Robert Adams Tue, 15 May 2018 04:56:53 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=23334#comment-217609 http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/letters/2018/05/14/People-should-have-greater-health-worries-than-thirdhand-smoke/stories/201805140071 People should have greater health worries than thirdhand smoke Pittsburgh Post Gazette, May 14,2018 I’ve been pondering the article on thirdhand smoke since I read it (May 11, “Thirdhand Smoke Is Widespread and May Be Dangerous, Studies Show”). While I found the article informative, I wondered if the public health experts so concerned for my well-being might need to rethink their priorities. As a resident of rural southern Butler County, I feel my health is threatened much more by all the unknown “stuff” being released into the air and my water supply by the Marcellus Shale fracking all around, than by the thirdhand smoke in my house from 20 years of smoking. (I quit 10 years ago). As for all you city-folk, you should be worried, as am I, about the herbicide and pesticide residue the good folks at Monsanto and the like provide you on your food every day. Thirdhand smoke is essentially moot compared with the daily onslaught to our health and well-being in the name of progress and profits. ROBERT ADAMS Middlesex http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/letters/2018/05/14/People-should-have-greater-health-worries-than-thirdhand-smoke/stories/201805140071

People should have greater health worries than thirdhand smoke

Pittsburgh Post Gazette, May 14,2018

I’ve been pondering the article on thirdhand smoke since I read it (May 11, “Thirdhand Smoke Is Widespread and May Be Dangerous, Studies Show”). While I found the article informative, I wondered if the public health experts so concerned for my well-being might need to rethink their priorities.

As a resident of rural southern Butler County, I feel my health is threatened much more by all the unknown “stuff” being released into the air and my water supply by the Marcellus Shale fracking all around, than by the thirdhand smoke in my house from 20 years of smoking. (I quit 10 years ago).

As for all you city-folk, you should be worried, as am I, about the herbicide and pesticide residue the good folks at Monsanto and the like provide you on your food every day.

Thirdhand smoke is essentially moot compared with the daily onslaught to our health and well-being in the name of progress and profits.

ROBERT ADAMS
Middlesex

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