What was that smell? Gas company not sure
http://www.dailyherald.com/search/main_story.asp?intid=3841121
not related;for us smokers:
NO CONNECTION BETWEEN SECOND-HAND SMOKE AND DEATH:
Or, more properly, LITTLE effect, ranging from one percent downward. This is so far the most exhaustive, longest running study on second-hand smoke and death and, wonder of wonders, it has not been suppressed by the BMJ, as has the earlier study by the World Health Organization that had similar findings. This study, by research professor James Enstrom of UCLA and professor Geoffery Kabat of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, published their study in the BMJ in May, 2003. It showed that their 39-year study of 35,561 Californians who had never smoked showed "no casual relationship between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and tobacco-related mortality." This study wasn't "suppressed" by BMJ as WHO's was when it came out (I have a copy of one of the early stories about it before the "fix was in") but have you read ANYTHING about this study in the mainstream media? The World Health Organization is still loudly claiming thousands of deaths from ETS in spite of its suppressed study. How can we depend on WHO for ANYTHING when they suppress their own study because it didn't fit their preconceived agenda? (Source: British Medical Journal, 5/03) [Posted 2/28/05]
http://sierratimes.com/05/02/28/nuggets.htm
Sounds like we'll never know.