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To: Just another Joe

No, you're living in an alternate reality where much "science" is all based on, "SHOW ME THE MONEY!"
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But it's a VERY UNscientific giant leap of FAITH

to therefore ASSUME

that ALL smoking studies are useless.

Sheesh.

This is not that difficult, folks.

243 posted on 08/16/2006 7:14:51 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)

But it's a VERY UNscientific giant leap of FAITH to therefore ASSUME that ALL smoking studies are useless.

I ASSUME nothing.
Of all the studies I have read, all the abstracts I have read, and all the risk ratios I have seen associated with them, it runs about 80% that there is no statistical significance associated with ETS causing harm to someone that has no preexisting medical condition.
About 20% find a very slight risk or even some type of casual association.
From what I've been able to ascertain a number of that 20% have no control groups, are sloppy in documenting confounding factors, or are metastudies where the studies and/or data has been cherry picked.

I've done my homework on this subject. Have you?

248 posted on 08/16/2006 7:25:06 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)

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