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Old 09-05-2008, 10:55 AM   #79 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by John Connor View Post
No, there isn't.
All reports of the dangers of passive smoking are based on the original WHO research, which was doctored to meet the WHO's predefined target result. The undoctored report states that the dangers of passive smoking are "not statistically significant". IIRC, if you're subjected to passive smoking you have an 11 in 10,000 chance of death from the usually quoted illnesses... and if you've never been exposed to second-hand smoke in your life, you have a 10 in 10,000 chance of death from those same illnesses.

And no, don't quote Roy Castle at me either - the autopsy showed that the cause of death couldn't possibly have been caused by passive smoking.
Lets talk real, hard facts. Real people. According to a study entitled "Estimates of deaths attributable to passive smoking among UK adults: database analysis" by Jamrozik K, published in the British Medical Journal, in 2003 alone, 617 people died as a result of passive smoking at work.

You may think that those deaths were justified to avoid the inconvienience of people going outside to smoke, but if you do, then I think that is the height of selfishness from smokers that they think it is justifiable to impose that human cost.
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