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Passive Smoking Doesn't Cause Cancer - Official
13 November 2002

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."


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To: Great Dane
I have a friend, a non-smoker who now gets sick on planes due to lack of fresh air intake.

Since smoking has been banned on airliners, they cut back on the fresh air to save fuel. They figured that since there is no smoking, they can cut the fresh air back.

However, more people are getting sick due to the stale air and virus's floating around.

541 posted on 11/18/2002 1:30:54 AM PST by SheLion
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To: GeoffreyTransom
"Don't cuss when there are ladies nearby." Is that too "interventionist" for you? after all, they're just words.

It's a two way street. I don't cuss around ladies and ladies don't come around when I'm cussing.

"Don't urinate in the street".

The street doesn't belong to me. I have a right to piss in my sink but not yours.

In truth, I would wipe out any and all who disagreed with me, if it was within my power.

This lie is a real debate killer.

542 posted on 11/18/2002 2:14:29 AM PST by laredo44
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To: GeoffreyTransom
Laredo44 - if you are so all-fired righteous about refusing to let individuals declare what is, and what is not, acceptable, what is your view on the fact that this forum is MODERATED?

I have no problem at all, it's not my forum. Furthermore, I'm not required to be here, am free to leave anytime I choose. You seem truly devoid of any notion of rights or private property.

And if you knew me, you would know that my "preferred conclusion" is for the elimination of about 99.5% of the population of the planet (in as humane a way as apossible, fo course) - starting with anybody who has registered as a member of any political party or religious group.

I would keep a small force of desexed drones to fulfil labour requirements for production, to ensure a suppply of "stuff" for myself and other Remnants. There are simply too many barely-humans wandering around thinking that the tyranny (to me) of "democracy" makestheir opinions worth revealing.

US foreign policy will result in a series of sufficiently large-scale events such that (hopefully) the US will devolve into a scattered group of marauding tribes who will only maraud INTERNALLY, rather than trying to be Rome all over again.

Help us out here, Geoff, just what college are you a sophomore at? Would you be a third or fourth year sophomore?

543 posted on 11/18/2002 2:23:49 AM PST by laredo44
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To: laredo44; *puff_list
Well, it looks like the little p!sser must have p!ssed off the powers that be, 'cause he's outta here!

GeoffreyTransom, we hardly knew ye.

544 posted on 11/18/2002 2:31:23 AM PST by metesky
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To: SheLion
"~Whoa......Leisler! Where did you find this stuff???"

If I hide my medications under my tongue, then the stuff just comes to me after a few days and since I don't give the orderlies any problem they let me use their computers and go online. Tonight is Jell-O night, that's how I know it is Sunday!

545 posted on 11/18/2002 3:03:40 AM PST by Leisler
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To: SheLion

"Passive Cancer Causes Smoking!"

Oak Hay, SheLion . . . work on that one for a little while !!! ;-))


546 posted on 11/18/2002 3:14:15 AM PST by GeekDejure
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To: VRWC_minion
"If its the will of the majority, yes. I have no problem with our governing system. Its worked well for us all these years and I expect it will continue to work well. "

I suppose asking you what your opinion on the decline and death of the various Greek and Sicilian city states, Rome, and other republics is a question wasted on a ignoramus.

547 posted on 11/18/2002 3:17:40 AM PST by Leisler
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To: SheLion
MANCAT


548 posted on 11/18/2002 5:05:03 AM PST by Leisler
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To: Max McGarrity
LOL Everytime you talk about me wearing a tight hairnet, it cracks me up & think think about you having a face like a bulldog. I don't know why but I can just picture you looking like a bulldog. LOL! have a NICE day!
549 posted on 11/18/2002 5:33:03 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Leisler
Leisler! That is so CUTE!


550 posted on 11/18/2002 6:19:52 AM PST by SheLion
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To: metesky
Well, it looks like the little p!sser must have p!ssed off the powers that be, 'cause he's outta here!

Can't think of a more deserving misanthrope.

551 posted on 11/18/2002 7:01:24 AM PST by laredo44
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To: Ditter
Thank you for your e-mail, and I do understand your problem, as for my friend... you're wrong, she does not get illnesses, it's lack of oxygen.
552 posted on 11/18/2002 7:13:34 AM PST by Great Dane
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To: Great Dane
What a terrible problem for your friend. She probably needs one of those portable oxygen tanks that so many former smokers need when their emphysema gets bad. My dad could have used one because emphysema contributed greatly to his suffering & death. He was too macho to admit to needing it.
553 posted on 11/18/2002 7:24:11 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter
#553........ She and her husband quit smoking 25 years ago, seems they are both allergic to everything under the sun.... now.
Many people who has never smoked, have the same problem when flying......cut in fresh air intake is much too severe, but it saves money.
554 posted on 11/18/2002 9:54:59 AM PST by Great Dane
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To: Great Dane
Allergies develop over time as your friends problems show. I am as allergic as anyone & more than most, its my ONLY health problem. I am surprized I haven't had trouble breathing on airplanes because of this problem since you say its so bad, but I haven't. I haven't heard anyone mention it other than FR smokers.
555 posted on 11/18/2002 10:40:53 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter; Max McGarrity
a meek little non smoker like myself

"And the meek shall inherit the earth."

Bet you can hardly wait for the will to be probated, huh?

I love the little word picture, "meek," "little."

Who could disagree with the downtrodden, meek, little pipples of the earth? What kind of monster wouldn't give way to their righteous whining?

Do you even have a clue of how you come across?

556 posted on 11/18/2002 12:16:43 PM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Madame Dufarge
I don't know how old you are but I remember & I speak the truth. In the 40's & 50's I was little & I was meek & I would never have asked a smoker to put out their cigarette because it was bothering me. Not many non smokers would have during that time. I have heard other non smokers tell you all the same thing. Times have changed, I have changed, I'm not that little anymore. heh heh
557 posted on 11/18/2002 1:04:44 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter
I don't know how old you are but I remember & I speak the truth. In the 40's & 50's I was little & I was meek & I would never have asked a smoker to put out their cigarette because it was bothering me.

I'm 55 years old.

What I specifically remember was that the non-smokers didn't dramatically fake-cough, frantically wave their arms around, get the vapors, or grab their throats and drop to the floor in the throes of their "allergies."

I grew up in a working-class mill town where reticence was considered a weakness.

Trust me, if anyone had had a problem with being in the company of smokers, it wouldn't have gone unstated.

I understand that the "working class mill town" reference is a nice, easy opening for the elitist wimps who get the vapors at the very thought of smoking to zero in on the "socio-economic" angle.

We're "uneducated" ("educated now being equated with "credentialed"), with calloused hands, as if that were a thing to be ashamed of.

People like you have weakened America, and you'll never understand why

558 posted on 11/18/2002 2:25:28 PM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Madame Dufarge
People like you have weakened America, and you'll never understand why.

That bears repeating, Madame Dufarge.

559 posted on 11/19/2002 11:42:50 AM PST by Max McGarrity
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To: SheLion

This topic is a bunch of bull. I am a smoker, but I just checked the World Health Organization's Web site, there is no such article. I guess none of you have actually investigated the facts behind this topic. The author used psychological rhetoric to make people fall for this enticing piece of fiction. I was getting ready to use this thread for a research document, but I needed the facts, and unfortunately the facts DO NOT EXIST.


560 posted on 02/18/2006 3:34:10 PM PST by joey9779
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