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has one of the strictest anti-smoking laws but the deaths from "passive smoking" are higher than normal?

This is such a crock! I have worked in cancer clinical trials and cancer data. I want these people to tell us how they came to the conclusion that these deaths were caused by "passive smoking" as opposed to other genetic, environmental, occupational hazards or random occurrences

I want these people to tell us how they came to the conclusion that these deaths were caused by "passive smoking" as opposed to other genetic, environmental, occupational hazards or random occurrences.

Would be nice, huh?
Maybe they do like the US antis do and figure that if you've EVER been exposed to "passive smoking" and then you die, it MUST have been a "passive smoking" death.

This is such a crock! I have worked in cancer clinical trials and cancer data. I want these people to tell us how they came to the conclusion that these deaths were caused by "passive smoking" as opposed to other genetic, environmental, occupational hazards or random occurrences

Thank you - this needs repeating.

scholar, has anyone here attempted to enlist your aid in this fight against shoddy science and corrupt politicians? You know more than the rest of us (although we've been forced to get an edumacation, whether we wanted it or not) about how to "parse" this crap.

Here's a good example of idiocy from today's Bangor Daily News:

Dr. Erik Steele’s Channel 5 News discussion of teen-agers’ sleep habits on April 23 did not tell the whole story.

Children who live with parents who smoke in their homes are breathing massive amounts of toxic pollution, which makes them drowsy and lethargic, and brings on headaches.

Federal standards allow somewhere between zero and 100 parts per million of carbon monoxide as tolerable, but tobacco smoke contains 42,000 parts per million. Bigger kids who don’t smoke probably stay out of those homes as much as possible. Schoolchildren cannot think clearly enough in that atmosphere to do their homework properly, and feel less like doing it. Chemically impaired children in those homes are apt to sleep longer and be harder to wake up.

Ray Perkins Jr.
Founder and president Mid-Coast Maine Promotion
“For Clean Indoor Air”
Waldoboro