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'''Passive [[smoking]]''', or second-hand smoking, is the inhaling of [[tobacco]] fumes exhaled by other smokers. Fear that it may cause lung cancer is the reason for the smoking ban in many public areas.

'''Passive [[smoking]]''', or second-hand smoking, is the inhaling of [[tobacco]] fumes exhaled by other smokers. Fear that it may cause lung cancer is the reason for the smoking ban in many public areas.

The [[EPA]] calls environmental tobacco smoke  a [[Group A carcinogen]], asserting that it is "responsible for approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths annually in U.S. nonsmokers."<ref> [http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/pubs/etsfs.html#Major%20Conclusions "Fact Sheet: Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking"]</ref> But a federal judge "ruled that the agency's report ignored accepted scientific and statistical practices in making its risk assessment."<ref> [http://fumento.com/smoke.html Michael Fumento investigates: "EPA's Pseudoscience Goes Up in Smoke."]</ref>

The [[EPA]] calls environmental tobacco smoke  a [[Group A carcinogen]], asserting that it is "responsible for approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths annually in U.S. nonsmokers."<ref>[http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/pubs/etsfs.html#Major%20Conclusions "Fact Sheet: Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking"]</ref> But a federal judge "ruled that the agency's report ignored accepted scientific and statistical practices in making its risk assessment."<ref>[http://fumento.com/smoke.html Michael Fumento investigates: "EPA's Pseudoscience Goes Up in Smoke."]</ref>

Michael Fumento wrote:

Michael Fumento wrote:

*James Enstrom of UCLA and professor Geoffrey Kabat of the State University of New York, Stony Brook ... reported in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) that their 39-year study of 35,561 Californians who had never smoked showed no "causal relationship between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and tobacco-related mortality," adding, however "a small effect" can't be ruled out.<ref> [http://www.fumento.com/disease/smoking.html Second-hand Smoke is Harmful to Science]</ref>

*James Enstrom of UCLA and professor Geoffrey Kabat of the State University of New York, Stony Brook ... reported in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) that their 39-year study of 35,561 Californians who had never smoked showed no "causal relationship between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and tobacco-related mortality," adding, however "a small effect" can't be ruled out.<ref>[http://www.fumento.com/disease/smoking.html Second-hand Smoke is Harmful to Science]</ref>

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