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Sam McClintock wrote:
> 
:> charliew@hal-pc.org wrote:
:> 
:> > Let's see.  3,000 deaths/year. 250 million U.S. citizens.  25% of
the adult
:> > population smokes.
:> >
:> > Assume 60 million smokers.  Also assume 60 million non-smokers are
exposed
:> > to this "threat" per year.  3000 deaths/year equates to 1/20,000
chance of
:> > dieing from this cause per year.  Yea, that's a REAL threat.

And there's *proof* that these people died from second-hand smoke?  And
without smoking or exposure to second-hand smoke, they wouldn't have
died?
 
:> It is a real threat if you have no chance of avoiding that smoke (can
you
:> saychildren) and all other factors are minimalistic.  In other words,
if you
:> are the
:> person being directly impacted with second hand smoke your odds of
:> encountering a problem are greatly increased.  In the event you just
wish to
:> consider randomized exposure, it is still a problem in terms of
health of
:> those who do not do well under those circumstances (asthma, etc.) and
:> those who in the past could not escape the problem in the workplace
:> which were considerable (a problem since corrected).
:> 
:> More importantly, the example is a clear case in which the source
being
:> very biased towards any science which remotely jeopardizes
conservative
:> interests.

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Can you tell us the criteria for determining if someone has died from
second-hand smoke?

What if a person has a family history of heart disease, and this person
is married to a smoker, but doesn't smoke.  If this person dies from
heart disease at age 75, was this person's death labeled as smoking
related?  I believe this is the case.  These statistics are so deceptive
that they have turned societies into paranoid freaks who gasp if they
pass someone in the street smoking.  The irony is that the exhaust put
out by vehicles driving by are much more dangerous.  Sometimes the
things you can't see and smell are more toxic.

If smoke is offensive to non-smokers, why can't they be satisfied that
they are not subjected to smoke in the workplace and that there are
non-smoking areas where they can dine, etc.?  

But stop the insane hysteria of second-hand smoke.

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