i knew this from Day 1
Posted on 02/13/2017 5:49:16 PM PST by DeweyCA
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A decade later, comprehensive smoking bans have proliferated globally. And now that the evidence has had time to accumulate, it’s also become clear that the extravagant promises made by anti-smoking groups—that implementing bans would bring about extraordinary improvements in cardiac health—never materialized. Newer, better studies with much larger sample sizes have found little to no correlation between smoking bans and short-term incidence of heart attacks, and certainly nothing remotely close to the 60 percent reduction that was claimed in Helena. The updated science debunks the alarmist fantasies that were used to sell smoking bans to the public, allowing for a more sober analysis suggesting that current restrictions on smoking are extreme from a risk-reduction standpoint.
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When the Helena study and its heirs were originally published, a few scientists noted that the results were wildly implausible and the methodologies deeply flawed. Yet their criticism was generally ignored. Studies reporting miraculous declines in heart attacks made global headlines; when better studies came along contradicting those results, they barely registered a blip in the media.
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There were good reasons from the beginning to doubt that smoking bans could really deliver the promised results, but anti-smoking advocacy groups eagerly embraced alarmism to shape public perception. Today’s tobacco control movement is guided by ideology as much as it is by science, prone to hyping politically convenient studies regardless of their merit and ostracizing detractors.
This has important implications for journalism. As health journalists take on topics such as outdoor smoking bans, discrimination against smokers in employment or adoption, and the ever-evolving regulation of e-cigarettes, they should consider that however well-intentioned the aims of the tobacco control movement are, its willingness to sacrifice the means of good science to the end of restricting behavior calls for skeptical scrutiny.
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(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
They are puling the same scam with their “climate change” bullshit.
The second hand smoke studies have a lot in common with climate alarmism.
Lots of political activism, almost no facts.
Climate studies are mostly bunk.
A good deal of the Smoking studies was bunk.
Guess what? A lot of the Evolution stuff is bunk too.
But all the scientists say what is expected of them, because otherwise the money dries up.
Yep.
It’s hard to believe Slate published this.
Filter, flavor, pack or box.
... the results were wildly implausible and the methodologies deeply flawed...
Just like the propaganda anti Second Amendment people use.
Smokers in restraunts were disgusting. Every time you went out to eat it smelled like you came out of a bar or casino.
Their habit should not intermingle with non-smokers.
Rush put his finger on it this afternoon: when the anti-smoking nazis were on the warpath, second hand smoke was the deadliest threat since mustard gas.
But now that medical marijuana is available throughout the country, and some states have started to legalize recreational marijuana, well lookee here - second-hand smoke is really no big deal.
When it comes to hypocrisy, the left is the gold standard.
First they came for the smokers but I didnt smoke so I did nothing....you know the rest.
Allowing junk science to drive policy results in tyranny.
Their success with the smoking bans only emboldened the tyrannical left.
I lived in a an apartment that even though I did not smoke, previous tenants had and all my belongings started smelling like smoke. I’d shower and dry off in a towel smelling like smoke. my hair smelled of smoke within an hour or two of washing it.
I obviously was breathing in second hand smoke. I constantly had a scratchy throat allergy type symptoms while living there. I have no clue if it’s effected my insides in other ways.
The office said they painted and cleaned carpet and i had them set off deodorizer twice only to have smell return a week or so later. So glad when I moved from there.
Now, there’s third-hand smoke.
People who are not currently smoking anywhere near you but have recently smoked, elsewhere, and then entered your safe zone.
Seriously.
But smoking pot is okay, anywhere, anytime.
It’s all natural and totally harmless and will cure any disease you might think of, just because.
i knew this from Day 1
I’d imagine the owners were glad you did too.
I was too was shocked, that this is from SLATE...of all places.
LSMFT
“I very much dislike cigarette smoke, but people and the media should tell the truth.”
I couldn’t agree more. At church on Sunday, the pastor went into diatribe for the second Sunday in a row about how bad smoking is and essentially equating smoking with not loving Jesus. He went on about his past experience at the Vietnam Memorial Wall, and how over 50,000 U.S troops died in that conflict. After pulling at everybody’s heartstrings, he cited some kind of B.S. statistic that there are over 50,000 people that die from smoking related illness Every Week in our nation!
I think there’s only a very small handful of smokers in the congregation, but I’d sure hate to have been one of them as the pastor used the B.S. figures from leftist agenda driven “scientists” to publicly shame them, out of “love” of course. This bunk science nonsense has gotten out of control as nonthing more than arguing points for the “progressives”.
This has important implications for journalism.
I have a friend that is a restaurateur in San Diego. He was afraid the smoking ban was going to kill his night club business. The opposite happened. Smokers kept coming, and smoked outside. Non- smokers tended to stay longer. What he noticed mostly was an improvement in his health and the sick rate amongst his employees went down. All anecdotal, but it is coming from a guy that was predisposed to expect the opposite.
My brother used to own a restaurant. Even though smoking was permitted, by law, his was a non-smoking facility. Seemed to suit everyone just fine, without the heavy hand of the government. If you wanted to smoke, you ate elsewhere, or went outside. Even our Mom had to go out to the parking lot, to indulge.
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