SamuelRSmith on 26 July 2013
| fordy said:
Carcinogens are not about receiving x amount of dosage over time. All it can take is one carcinogen to cause a cancer. It's more like a constant gamble than anything. Short answer, the less carcinogens in the air, the better. Exposure time has nothing to do with it. |
Doesn't his statement still stand? If, going by his example, you are surrounded by smoke once every six months, you're still so unlikely to develop cancer from it, versus being exposed to it every day. If you gamble once every six months, you win less often than if you gamble every day.
Difference is, in this gamble, "winning" = dying.
