Posted on 11/13/2002 9:23:09 AM PST by SheLion
UK Sunday Telegraph...
Passive Smoking Doesn't Cause Cancer - Official
Headline: Passive Smoking Doesn't Cause Cancer - Official
Byline: Victoria MacDonald, Health Correspondent
Dateline: March 8, 1998
The world's leading health organization has withheld from publication a study which shows that not only might there be no link between passive smoking and lung cancer but that it could even have a protective effect. The astounding results are set to throw wide open the debate on passive smoking health risks.
The World Health Organization, which commissioned the 12-centre, seven-country European study has failed to make the findings public, and has instead produced only a summary of the results in an internal report. Despite repeated approaches, nobody at the WHO headquarters in Geneva would comment on the findings last week.
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The findings are certain to be an embarrassment to the WHO, which has spent years and vast sums on anti-smoking and anti-tobacco campaigns. The study is one of the largest ever to look at the link between passive smoking - inhaling other people's smoke - and lung cancer, and had been eagerly awaited by medical experts and campaigning groups. Yet the scientists have found that there was no statistical evidence that passive smoking caused lung cancer.
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The research compared 650 lung cancer patients with 1,542 healthy people. It looked at people who were married to smokers, worked with smokers, both worked and were married to smokers, and those who grew up with smokers. The results are consistent with there being no additional risk for a person living or working with a smoker and could be consistent with passive smoke having a protective effect against lung cancer.
The summary, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, also states: "There was no association between lung cancer risk and ETS exposure during childhood." A spokesman for Action on Smoking and Health said the findings "seem rather surprising given the evidence from other major reviews on the subject which have shown a clear association between passive smoking and a number of diseases."
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Dr Chris Proctor, head of science for BAT Industries, the tobacco group, said the findings had to be taken seriously. "If this study cannot find any statistically valid risk you have to ask if there can be any risk at all. "It confirms what we and many other scientists have long believed, that while smoking in public may be annoying to some non-smokers, the science does not show that being around a smoker is a lung-cancer risk."
With that comment you indict all smokers, without acknowledging that many smokers choose to smoke away from their children/grandchildren!
Those laws that you think are written in stone are made for people like me to twist to my own evil ends, little boy.
Bwahahahaha!
Journal of Theoretics [Smoking Does Not Cause Lung Cancer(According to WHO/CDC Data)]
Passive smoking doesn't cause cancer - official By Victoria Macdonald, Health Correspondent I think this is the article you are looking for. (also Main Page)
Smoke and Mirrors: The EPA's Flawed Study of Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer
Here's a Golden Oldie Free Republic original thread!
Cigarettes Don't Cause Cancer (Not sure what to make of this one! But, thought you might like to see it.)
Correct, in context my disdain is only reserved for those who insist on smoking in the same room as their minor children. It is those smokers who are selfish.
The only time the others are selfish is when they let themselves die from smoking related diseases.
And my "fallacy" was?
You're getting hysterical, aren't you? Try breathing into a paper bag or something.
The owner of the restaurant has property rights; and should be allowed to be determine whether he will accommodate smokers.
Your mob notwithstanding.
I'll make the call....
Despite the illegality of these laws they continue to be enacted/upheld by those representing the antis...it amounts to seizure of private property and use designation without input/consent by the property owner.
Our beef is with the never-ending avalanche of ill-will and legal manuevering aimed at curtailing our right to engage in the enjoyment of a legal product anywhere!
I'll make the call....
Sometimes it's hard to be clear (let alone rational) from behind our keyboards.
:O)
Still calling names and still no scientific proof.
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