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Article #93Re: Urgent Issues Far More Serious than Emissions!
From: Scott Nudds
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 00:00
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: >Terese wrote: : >> But stop the insane hysteria of second-hand smoke. (jj, curmudgeon and tiring philalethist) wrote: : Second-hand smoke is shown to cause elevated levels of disease and : death in non-smokers, especially children and old folks. Constant : exposure, as in around a smoker, is shown to be quite bad for you, : like a low level of smoking. Furthermore, nicotine inhaled second-hand : is shown to affect the connectivity of the brain in small people. Study: Passive Smoking-Cancer Link Found - Sept 10, 97 ---------------------------------------- - Reuter - WASHINGTON - U.S. researchers said Wednesday they had found a cancer-causing chemical in the bodies of people exposed to second-hand smoke -- the first hard evidence of how passive smoking can cause cancer. The compound, NNK, is found in the urine of people exposed to tobacco smoke but not in those who have not breathed someone else's smoke, Stephen Hecht and colleagues at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center in Minneapolis found. They told a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Las Vegas that NNK is found only in tobacco smoke. ... -- <---->
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 113bb0,2b81b36985e56b4c X-Google-Attributes: gid113bb0,public X-Google-Thread: 10df74,2b81b36985e56b4c X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public X-Google-Thread: fb58e,2b81b36985e56b4c X-Google-Attributes: gidfb58e,public X-Google-Thread: 10c480,2b81b36985e56b4c X-Google-Attributes: gid10c480,public X-Google-Thread: 10607c,2b81b36985e56b4c X-Google-Attributes: gid10607c,public X-Google-Thread: 122e98,2b81b36985e56b4c X-Google-Attributes: gid122e98,public X-Google-Thread: fd92c,2b81b36985e56b4c X-Google-Attributes: gidfd92c,public X-Google-Thread: 1165e1,2b81b36985e56b4c X-Google-Attributes: gid1165e1,public From: af329@james.hwcn.org (Scott Nudds) Subject: Re: Urgent Issues Far More Serious than Emissions! Date: 1998/02/18 Message-ID: <6cg0b5$c7n@james.hwcn.org> X-Deja-AN: 326464934 References: <69egau$g35@priv-sys04-le0.agt.net> <34D0215C.7ABFB8FA@nospam.net> Distribution: world Organization: Hamilton-Wentworth FreeNet Newsgroups: att.environmental,government.us.topic.environment.air,ca.environment,sci.environment,talk.environment,uk.environment,alt.building.environment,aus.environment.misc,ca.politics,alt.law-enforcement