Passive thinking is fatal
"AS MPS CHOOSE today between partial or total bans on smoking in public places they must ask themselves whether lying to promote a cause is ever legitimate.
"The question is urgent because the claim that secondary smoking kills is alchemy, not science, and honest anti-smoking lobbyists know it. The theory that cigarette smoke kills non-smokers was dreamt up 30 years ago by anti-smoking activists; only after inventing it did they attempt to prove it.
"Dozens of peer-reviewed scientific studies have followed. All point to a compelling consensus that there is no causal link between passive smoking and fatal illness. One of the most comprehensive studies was published in the British Medical Journal in 2003. It concluded: “The results do not support a causal relationship between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality.”
"That was unsurprising. The International Agency for Research on Cancer notes that of 23 scientific studies into the effects of workplace exposure to second-hand smoke only one found a statistically significant risk for lung cancer. One in 23 is what objective science calls an anomaly ..."
Times Online
Tagged: science, health
"The question is urgent because the claim that secondary smoking kills is alchemy, not science, and honest anti-smoking lobbyists know it. The theory that cigarette smoke kills non-smokers was dreamt up 30 years ago by anti-smoking activists; only after inventing it did they attempt to prove it.
"Dozens of peer-reviewed scientific studies have followed. All point to a compelling consensus that there is no causal link between passive smoking and fatal illness. One of the most comprehensive studies was published in the British Medical Journal in 2003. It concluded: “The results do not support a causal relationship between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality.”
"That was unsurprising. The International Agency for Research on Cancer notes that of 23 scientific studies into the effects of workplace exposure to second-hand smoke only one found a statistically significant risk for lung cancer. One in 23 is what objective science calls an anomaly ..."
Times Online
Tagged: science, health
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