[Gabz]

The 1986 Surgeon General's Report on The Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking declared that secondhand smoke causes disease, including lung cancer, in healthy nonsmokers.

And the World Health Organization, doing the largest study ever, 10 years later - says the total opposite.

People do not acknowledge the fact that these are epidemiologic studies - they show possible correlation - they do not show cause. additionally they must be statistically significant risk ratios for those correlations.

They DON'T exist.

[jim35]

Oh, for goodness sake, don't muddy the waters with FACTS! This is a political issue, so truth is not at issue. In this case, causation can be assumed from correlation. And rising hemlines cause the stock market to rise. The correlation is there, too.