Second-hand Smoking - Page 18

quote Gary15

...but it annoys me to no end when us none smokers are forced to breath in their smoke especailly when there is a lot of evidence to suggest that 2nd hand smoke is pretty harmful.

quote http://reason.com/ogmyt.shtml

In any case, there is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy.

quote http://www.widigest.com/html/jj101004.htm

According the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC), "Secondhand smoke is a cause of disease, including lung cancer, in healthy nonsmokers. Each year secondhand smoke kills an estimated 3,000 adult nonsmokers from lung cancer. " This claim is the main argument for the smoking ban hysteria sweeping across Wisconsin as one community after another is banning smoking in restaurants and public places.

The main evidence supporting this "public safety" measure, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 1993 report on secondhand smoke, was thrown out by a USA Federal court of law in July 1998. Judge William Osteen vacated the study — declaring it null and void after extensively commentating on the shoddy way it was conducted. In his 92-page decision Osteen remarked, "EPA publicly committed to a conclusion before research had begun, excluded industry by violating the Act's procedural requirements, adjusted established procedure and scientific norms to validate the Agency's public conclusion, and aggressively utilized the Act's authority to disseminate findings to establish a de facto regulatory scheme intended to restrict Plaintiffs' products and to influence public opinion."

quote http://www.smokersclubinc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2224

A 40-year study of Californians, the largest study on secondhand smoke to date, has reached the conclusion that anti-tobacco extremists have been dreading: their claims about the health risks from secondhand smoke are bogus.