Passive Smoking - Diverging Opinions

I have just finished an interview with Dr Nitzkin (it will take me a little while to transcribe and upload the interview) on e-cigarettes.

Just as an aside, I asked him about a topic that interests me, that of passive smoking.

I was originally convinced that passive smoking killed. However, a seed of doubt was planted in my head when I heard Sir Richard Dahl, the scientist who discovered the link between cancer and smoking, disparage the connection between passive smoking and smoking diseases in a radio interview not long before his death.

My sceptism was increased when I saw the money that had been poured into smoking disease research and anti-smoking campaigns by pharmecutical companies.

Dr Joel Nitzkin, however, stated that passive smoking was responsible for 30,000 deaths a year in America.

With around 400,000 smokers dying from smoking related diseases in America, that would mean that for every 11 or smokers that die from smoking, one non-smoker would be taken along with them.

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