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How smokers' beliefs differ from non-smokers'

A survey by University of Waterloo researchers showed that smokers were much less likely than non-smokers to believe that:

second-hand smoke hurts non-smokers (77% to 93%)
second-hand smoke caused lung cancer in non-smokers (54% to 79%)
And that they were much more likely to believe that:

air pollution is a greater health risk to non-smokers than second-hand smoke (51% to 35%)
people are too concerned about the effect of other people’s smoking (63% vs. 33%)
evidence of the dangers of second-hand smoke is exaggerated (46% vs. 32%)
[Rickert WS, Walker R, Brown KS, Cameron R. Environmental tobacco smoke in the home: Attitudes, beliefs and actions of smokers and non-smokers.]

[philetus]

In the British study, if the kid came from a smokers home, it was attribited to second hand smoke. Even if it was something that ran in the family.

And I'm sure the poll was scientific.NOT

Non-smokers will almost always say smoking is bad.