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Friday, May 16, 2003 Passive Smoking Not So Bad After All. . . Well well well. . . it turns out that second hand smoke isn't as bad for you as previously thought. Not that this is a hurrah for the tobacco companies or anything, but just something against all of the government-sponsored truth police out there trying to convince the world of the dangers of smoking (based on half-truths, but no one is watching right?): The report is significant because of its scale — studying 120,000 people in California from 1959 to 1998. More than 35,000 of them were non-smokers living with a smoker. Those exposed to “environmental smoke” did not suffer significantly higher rates of lung cancer or heart disease, it was claimed. Researchers said passive smoking could not cause a 30 per cent increased risk of coronary heart disease — the figure generally accepted by experts. They added: “It seems premature to conclude that environmental tobacco smoke causes death from coronary heart disease and lung cancer.” The full report will be published in the British Medical Journal. posted by Shaun Kenney \| 5/16/2003 04:44:00 PM \| 0 comments 0 Comments: Post a Comment Home
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