Titled "Lies, Damned Lies & 400,000 Smoking-Related Deaths," the article focused on the 1993 report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which estimated that 419,000 Americans died of diseases attributed to smoking in 1990.
The authors maintain that the CDC used statistical trickery to grossly exaggerate the dangers of smoking.
The alleged death toll included diseases for which the relative risk to smokers is statistically insignificant. So insignificant that groups such as the National Cancer Institute refuse to recognize such levels of risk.
Also the CDC failed to correct for variables, a mortal sin in statistics.
July 17, 1998, decision by Judge William Osteen of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Osteen nullified the EPA's 1992 assessment that there is sufficient evidence to designate second-hand smoke as a human carcinogen.
Judge Osteen determined that the agency had knowingly, willfully and aggressively disseminated false information with far-reaching regulatory implications.
http://www.junkscience.com/jun99/indystar.htm
Oak Ridge Labs, TN & SECOND HAND SMOKE
Statistics and Data Sciences Group Projects
I think any anti who tries to dismiss the findings of the U.S. Department of Energy labs at Oak Ridge, should be confronted with the question: "Are you saying that DOE researchers committed scientific fraud and that their findings on ETS exposure are untrue?"
"Lies, Damned Lies & 400,000 Smoking-Related Deaths,"
http://www.forces.org/evidence/files/marim.htm
....the only requirements to be add to these statistic's
1.you died (not how or why)
2.you smoked at sometime while you were alive (not how long or how much)!