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Originally Posted by freezin
Campaigners make claims which appear as persuasive about global warming too. I'm far from convinced about that either.
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Non-smokers die from cancer, including lung cancer. Whether this is due to passive smoking is far from proven. There are other factors
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My apologies re your point on "Campaigners"- I thought I had made it clear I deliberately avoided any "campaigning" sites - those links are researchers, not campaigners. They are reporting their findings, not their feelings. Cui bono?
Re your point about "passive smoking", I thought link 1 and link3 were fairly unequivocal about that? Sir Richard Doll did say what you quoted, but what is almost always missed out when that is stated is the fact "
he had just published a study from 12 European countries suggesting the opposite: it was estimated that non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke are between 20 and 30 per cent more likely to develop lung cancer".
Guardian
He also said in that interview
"Find out what the tobacco industry supports and don't do it, and find out what they object to and do it." , but strangely enough, that doesn't seem to get quoted as much.
We will probably have to agree to disagree on this topic.
(btw, your link doesn't work).