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Info about smoking studies –

An anonymous reader has pointed us to some interesting articles about the health effects of smoke:   

”The longterm CA study you couldn't think of (based on stats gathered by
the Cancer Society)  was done by Enstrom & Kabat (The results do not support a causal relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality, although they do not rule out a small effect.), 2 distinguished scientists who were then dumped on viciously by the establishment because their results weren't pc. “

Do a google on their names and you'll come up with their original study along with some articles of pure vitriol written against them. You can also find several threads about them, which will include those articles, at www.debunkers.com.  Go to "Demon Tobacco" and then check "Last 60 days" archives. Tho you may have to go back to 100 days

Also, a must-read for attacking the antis' science is at:
www.nycclash.com/CaseAgainstBans/Introduction.html

See what OSHA thinks about second-hand smoke - "Field studies of environmental tobacco smoke indicate that under normal conditions, the components in tobacco smoke are diluted below existing Permissible Exposure Levels (PELS.) as referenced in the Air Contaminant Standard (29 CFR 1910.1000)...It would be very rare to find a workplace with so much smoking that any individual PEL would be exceeded."
-Letter From Greg Watchman, Acting Ass't Sec'y, OSHA, To Leroy J Pletten, PHD, July 8, 1997  http://www.nycclash.com/CaseAgainstBans/OSHA.html#OSHA

And about those 53,000 deaths  - In 1981 and again in 1988, the American Cancer Society did two major US studies (CPS-1 and CPS-2) and "major" means major:  the first studied 1 million people, the second. 1.2.  In addition to looking into the correlations of secondhand smoke and lung cancer, it also looked for links to heart disease.  And found no connection.  In either study.
-"Environmental Tobacco Smoke And Mortality," Lee; Karger, 1992 http://www.nycclash.com/CaseAgainstBans/HeartDisease.html#Heart

Restaurant workers and restaurant air http://www.nycclash.com/CaseAgainstBans/RestaurantAir.html#Restaurants

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