[Max McGarrity]

Pass it along, folks.

[NYCVirago]

How does one get on the "puff list"? I'm outraged by Bloomberg's anti-smoking crusade.

[Great Dane]

The half a pack stat, came from the Harmond or Hammond study, they accidently on purpose shifted a comma, it should have read 1,7 ended up reading 17, but Max says even that number is overstated.

[Great Dane]

Max, our City Councillors are also still spewing the half a pack a day nonsense, I told Munter that he of all people know that figure to be fudged.... of course he never responds.

[SheLion]

Once again, the anti's keep sweeping under the rug about the true studies about second hand smoke and/or ETS:

Federal Court Rules Against EPA on Secondhand Smoke

Statistics and Data Sciences Group Projects

I think any anti who tries to dismiss the findings of the U.S. Department of Energy labs at Oak Ridge, should be confronted with the question: "Are you saying that DOE researchers committed scientific fraud and that their findings on ETS exposure are untrue?"

I continually ask this question, but never get their answer. Why? Because they cannot dispute these findings, but hope the general public will be blind to these studies and never see them. Well, the general public IS finding about their bogus lies. Someone should go into Mayor BloominIdiots office and slam these two studies right on his desk! "Can you READ MAYOR? HELLO???"

[KS Flyover]

Junk science with numbers pulled right out of the air, for sure.

"Working one eight-hour shift in a smoky bar exposes one to the same amount of carcinogens as smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day."

And then we have the drooling idiot from this article a couple of weeks ago:

Ron Burke, spokesman for the American Lung Association in Chicago, said the organization supports an overall smoking ban in restaurants to protect employees as well as customers. He said that being exposed to eight hours of secondhand smoke is equivalent to "smoking a pack or two of cigarettes, involuntarily."

They are all scum-sucking liars!!

[Great Dane]

I really can't see how Bloomberg can get away with this.

[Madame Dufarge]

any ship docked in NY.

Boy, that was close. Bloomberg almost forgot to make tourists arriving on cruise ships feel unwelcome, too.

I imagine the next step will be weighing stations at all the docks and highway borders to ensure that no one exceeding the government approved weight standard for The New Superman tries to litter the landscape with their tainted dollars.

What did this guy go to the Saddam Hussein School of Charm?

[altair]

"Well-documented studies have proven the devastating effects of second-hand smoke. Employees in bars and in restaurants where smoking is permitted have a 50% higher risk of lung cancer than other workers, even after taking their own smoking habits into account. Working one eight-hour shift in a smoky bar exposes one to the same amount of carcinogens as smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day."

I love the smell of junk science in the morning.