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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. | |
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| − | + | 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> | |
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| − | + | 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> | |
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Revision as of 01:20, August 10, 2010
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."[1] But a federal judge "ruled that the agency's report ignored accepted scientific and statistical practices in making its risk assessment."[2]
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.[3]