Per my post above . . . #157
However, even Philip Morris is now, on their website, is saying the public should be guided by public health officials regarding exposure to SHS (recently they also finally conceded that smoking itself causes serious illness.) I have cut and pasted the language from the PM website below, and you can go to
http://www.pmusa.com/health_issues/secondhand_smoke.asp as the source.
There are also at least two studies I am aware of that have now clinically demonstrated cardiac output changes as a result of exposure to only 30 minutes of exposure to SHS. I have included links to one of these studies in this email, and have also attached a PDF file that speaks to this.
Link to the summary of July 2001 JAMA article regarding the "Acute Effects of Passive Smoking on the Coronary Circulation in Healthy Young Adults."
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/286/4/436 Another excellent site with numerous links to SHS exposure studies, and documents about what the tobacco industry knew, when they knew, and how they continue to try to confuse the issue is the Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights website at www.no-smoke.org. Click on the "second hand smoke" page.
Another abstract from the Tobacco Control Journal documents how much higher the levels of exposure to SHS is in bars;
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/3/333. The article is entitled "Exposure to secondhand smoke and excess lung cancer mortality risk among workers in the "5 B's": bars, bowling alleys, billiard halls, betting establishments, and bingo parlours; by M Siegel and M Skeer; Boston University School of Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Stanton Glantz's site about second hand smoke and restaurants also has a number of excellent links:
http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/resource/resource_health.cfm including a powerpoint presentation on the sharp decrease of heart attacks when Helena, MT went smoke-free, followed by an increase back to the previous level once the smoke-free ordinance was suspended;
http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/pdf/chicago_final_rps.ppt (this can take awhile to download and open).
The Helena, MT study alone is sobering enough.
The Helena, MT study alone is sobering enough.The Helena, MT study is pure junk science. Nothing more and nothing less. If you look at the records, which people have done, you will find other periods of the same, or longer, duration when the numbers have done the same thing without any difference in smoking at all.
As for studies that have now clinically demonstrated cardiac output changes as a result of exposure to only 30 minutes of exposure to SHS.
Cardiac output also changes as a result of eating a meal, kissing the one you love, exercising, etc.
Don't get me wrong, there may be a factual basis to the thought that cardiac output changes when exposed to ETS. That doesn't mean that it is necessarily going to kill you OR take years off your life.
Oh, and one more thing, if you're going to use Stanton Glantz as a source, you really should do a little more research. This is the same man that said it would take a tornado, 300+ MPH winds, to scour a room of ETS.
Anything that comes out of Glantz's mouth, or from his website, is suspect IMO. The man has an irrational hatred of smokers.