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Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:02:25 +0000

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Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:35:06 +0000

[...] At the very least, the dangers of passive smoking has been exaggerated. (And if you think I am a crank consider that Richard Doll, one of the scientists who discovered the link between passive smoking and cancer, had the same opinion; See Passive Smoking: A Risk Too Small To Worry About?) [...]

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Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:52:30 +0000

[...] Siegel comprehensively destroys the argument, pointing out that the risk of someone dying from passive smoking is ‘exceedingly’ [...]

By: QG

QG — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:47:31 +0000

Checked out your website link – then realised I have spent time on their before browsing. Excellent site!

By: QG

QG — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:29:56 +0000

Well, we certainly don't disagree with you about how bad it is for smokers. We do believe that when smokers realise how much they have been lied to about passive smoking they may stop believing how bad smoking is!

Will be checking out your links!

By: DaveA

DaveA — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:17:07 +0000

My name is Dave Atherton from wwww.freedom2choose.info a smokers right's group in the UK. Active smoking is as bad as the scientists make out, 7 years early mortality and 86% of lung cancer cases are smokers. However you are right on the money as far as passive smoking goes. It is largely an invention/exaggeration of the anti smoking lobby.

It is best summed up here.
"Yes, it's rotten science, but it's in a worthy cause. It will help us to get rid of cigarettes and become a smoke-free society" so said Alvan Feinstein, Yale University epidemiologist writing in Toxological Pathology in 1999 on passive smoking."

There have been over 80 studies done into passive smoking and 16% say it is a risk, 14% protective and 70% show no risk or protection.

Non smokers breathe in 0.009 of a cigarette per hour in a smoky bar to 0.001 sitting at a bus stop. The barman would breathe in if they worked 40 hours a week for 50 weeks the equivalent of 18.5 cigarettes a year. Sir Richard Doll also found that those who smoke up to 3 a day run no higher risk of lung cancer and early mortality.

As you know yourself this is an exercise in control as opposed to right and wrong.

If you wish to know more I can be contacted on daveatherton20@hotmail.com

http://iarnuocon.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/17/1028570-secondhand-smoke-mirrors

http://www.legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/hmf16b00/pdf?search="concentrations of nicotine tobacco smoke in public places