Sphinx, this isn't Big Tobacco's money. This is from the taxes SMOKERS pay on cigarettes.
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."
Passive smoking doesn't cause cancer - official
PASSIVE SMOKING DOES CAUSE LUNG CANCER, DO NOT LET THEM FOOL YOU
BTW, the thread is Years old.
This needs to get legs!
(No, I am not a smoker, either.)
We are trying to spread the word. Maybe you can help as well. The war on the smokers is all about money and politics. Nothing more nothing less. And people who choose to buy a legal commodity are caught right in the middle.
The unpaid ones are more than likely high school students, useful idiots trying to gin up "community service" points for graduation
There's only one way this will get widespread notice, and that's if the cigarette companies sue to get their money back.
Pal who? hehe
Well, these coalitions that sprang up after the Tobacco Settlement was the birth of the state health departments, such as our own Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine. And we all know that our Maine cigarette tax dollars are paying the wages of these scum bag.
The unpaid ones are more than likely high school students, useful idiots trying to gin up "community service" points for graduation.
A lot of them in here actually do sound like they are under the age of 35 Madame Dufarge. They don't speak from the experience that WE have.
Sphinx, this isn't Big Tobacco's money. This is from the taxes SMOKERS pay on cigarettes.
Using an article from 2002, I see. Why?
Using an article from 2002, I see. Why?
Because joey9779 resurrected it, that's why.
Plus, that's when the WHO research came out. Free Republic long term archives the threads, so you can just about bring up anything over the past 5 years.
People should be allowed to kill themselves if that's what they want!
People who have eaten carrots are gonna die, too!!!
No, but all it causes is lung and eye irritation, smelly clothes, and a partner with bad breath.
Ironically, she already does exactly that...when you and her take a trip in the car. The pipe just happens to be coming out the back of her car instead of stuck in her mouth.
Macanudo Vintage 97 #1
So don't hang out with someone who enjoys smoking smart arze!
Easy enough to eradicate.
(At least any smell "I" have can be washed off. So unlike your stink!)
Easy enough to eradicate."
Yeah, let me go back into my Wayback Machine and stop "hanging out" with my parents as they smoked while I ate my dinner.
A lot of them sound like they're under the age of 12 ;o)
HA! You are being nice. LOL!
It ain't Sam!!! It's all them danged do-gooders that's dictatorial Liberuls!!! I cain't stan 'em!!!
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