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To: justiceseeker93
Thank you for your unsupported opinion.

A modest suggestion: Would you not learn something from the UN WHO report which was suppressed? It was compiled by experts in the medical field, immunologists, researchers and other scientific experts in their field.

Why should anecdotal evidence and neuroses drive laws?

Just a suggestion.

15 posted on 04/20/2007 9:13:17 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Publius6961
I don't think that "anecdotal evidence and neuroses" should drive laws, and I think that many of the recent laws totally banning smoking in certain places are indeed based on nothing more than that.

Having said that, I wouldn't necessarily trust anything coming out of the UN. They're not exactly known for objectivity as an organization.

You must realize that is very difficult to design reasonable scientific studies on the effects of second hand smoke. How can anyone quantify the amount of second hand smoke that he or she has been exposed to over a lifetime? Since any harmful effects on non-smokers would be intuitively correlated with the quantity of exposure, just about any of these studies would have a built-in flaw impossible to overcome.

23 posted on 04/20/2007 11:33:49 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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