There is a legal term called prima facie evidence...i.e. the evidence speaks for itself. There are no deaths associated with ETS. If SHS kills people, why should smokers even bother to quit? The SHS will kill you and them anyway.
Besides Richard Moorehead, can anyone here name 10 other people who have been killed by smoke in a bar? He is the only documented case to date.
Man's Impending Death to be Caused by Second Hand Smoke
In a joint press conference on Friday, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the premature death of a Montana man will be caused by exposure to Second Hand Smoke.
After extensive conversation with the SAMMEC computers and after long and grueling hours of torturing the data until it told us what we want to hear, we are finally prepared to definitively state that Richard Mooreheads death will be a direct result of his exposure to Second Hand Smoke. Said WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan We can find no other logical reason for Mr. Mooreheads soon to be tragic demise other than his exposure to SHS.
The soon to be deceased Mr. Moorehead, 54, an unemployed HIV positive, type 2 diabetic, MS, ALS and kidney dialysis patient who is addicted to Crystal Meth and Heroin, was shocked and visibly angry when told of his diagnosis and cause of death. Reached at his home in an exclusive gated trailer park community in Missoula, MT, Mr. Moorehead blamed his impending death on the careless brutes with cigarettes down at Jims Roadhouse Bar on Highway 263. Ive never smoked tobacco in my life. But that darn Jims Bar was always filled with that there smoke.
Second Hand Smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of a smoker. It causes an estimated 450,000 deaths per day, according to health authorities, Al Gore and Dionne Warwicks Psychic Friends Network. Its also been known to cause AIDS, herpes, hemmorhoids, athletes foot and jock itch.
Like 9/11 truthers who believe fire can't melt steel, there is no evidence that science can provide that will ever change a smokers mind.
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The Risks to Children are Widely Acknowledged
The conclusion that secondhand smoke causes respiratory effects in children is widely shared and virtually undisputed. Even the tobacco industry does not contest these effects in its media and public relations campaign.
EPA estimates that every year, between 150,000 and 300,000 children under 1-1/2 years of age get bronchitis or pneumonia from breathing secondhand tobacco smoke, resulting in thousands of hospitalizations. In children under 18 years of age, secondhand smoke exposure also results in more coughing and wheezing, a small but significant decrease in lung function, and an increase in fluid in the middle ear. Children with asthma have more frequent and more severe asthma attacks because of exposure to secondhand smoke, which is also a risk factor for the onset of asthma in children who did not previously have symptoms.
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http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/pubs/strsfs.html
Only God knows the real answer.