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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0013.225 2002-2004 Please circulate to all council members. This will help to make a rational decision on the smoking ban. ~ 03 JUL 3 H~855 Aloha, Robert Reed COUNiII Po box 1351 HAWAII Pahoa, I-L. 96778 808 982 9583 Pg 14 of 14 13 • ~l 5 Raf. Tp 1 C ~ Ref. Date I'd bSS9 996 808 paay z~agob e04 ~80 EO EO IBC FORCES International -The Evidence -Second Hand Smoke Page 1 of 13 WHO PASSIVE SMOKE ~"-DA-~ Forces Intemationa! The CD "Mere exposure does not equate to toxicity; ~ that says it's the dose that makes the poison" ~ it all on poNtical Back to The evltlence Basic principle of toxicology corruption and Smoking and Asthma Back to main frauds on papa smoking. Check the escalation "ffrepeated often enough, a tie will tutatat the fraudulent (NDQOR AIRQuA~i'rC: become the new truth. " ~ ETS death BiE~R~TH Paul Joseph Goebbles, Minister of claims! SMOKING~ND Propaganda, Nazi Germany cuctc eTS-Bs meter VENTIL,A~ON -Direct Itti~ always measurement studies. updated! `~neM NEW, ENORMOUS STUDY UNMASKS THE ANTiSMOK1NG FItA_'~^~ t'^"'^^ Environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortali in a prospecfiv_e study of Californians,_1980-98 -May 19th, 2003 - "The results do not support a causal rotation between environmental tobacco smoke and fobacco related mortality, although they do not rule out a small effect The association ~ between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and coronary heaK disease and lung cancer maybe considerably weaker than generally believed." Smears and Media Cover ll~ Commentary On The Std REKISITING HE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE~XPOSURE AND LUNG CANCER RISK -May 28, 2002 -There`s been a bud and "responsible" silence in the media about this study, publ'~shed 11 months ago, concerning the overestimatlon of the already ridiculousy small "risks" of passive smoke. Adjustment for bias due to misdass~cation o/smoking habits reduces the observed relative risk of lung cancer in nonsmoking women associated with smoking ~~2'~),1 by the husband from f.24 ro 1.18." Eighteen percent risk increment ...(1.00 = no 'y: risk; 1.18 = 18 °k increased risk). Readers must keep in mind that statistical dsks smaller than 200°/. are not even rxmsidered by serous science - especiaNy when one cannot even be sure of what has been measured - as N is always and only the case for passive smoke. Yet, well flnancetl criminals have penetrated the media, state and even international institutions to the point where anon-existing danger has become a primary legal, flnanaal and poNtical issue at the global level. This is the sad state of decay in the body of "public heaRh" -the entity we trust. ENVIRONMENTA_ TL OBACCO SMOKE IN AN_l1NRESTRICTED SMOKING WORKPLACE: AREA AND PERSONAL EXEXPOSURE MONITORING -Passive smoking not as big a threat? In fact, it is no threat at all. When studies on passive ' smoking are not based on twisted questionnaires, the truth comes out. "ANhough „ smoking was completey unrestricted inside the main office areas of the facility, ETS levels, either areal or from personal exposure measurements, were lower than those estimated by Occupational Safety and HeaNh Administration to be present in such facilities "The overestimation of something that has not even been proven to be a http://www.forces.org/evidencefevid/second.htm 7/1/2003 d'd bSS9 996 808 paab q~ago,y e04 ~BO EO EO CSC FORCES International -The Evidence -Second Hand Smoke Page 2 of 13 hazard is a well established technique of the antismoking crooks. Yet another study absolves passive smoking -but let's be careful... PASSIVE SMOKING EXPOSURE AND FEMAI.~ BREAST CANCER MORTALITY - "In contrast to the results of previous studies, this study found no association between • exposure to ETS and female breast cancer mortaltfy. The results o/our study are paRicularly compe8fng because of its prospective design as compared with most ewer studies, the relatively Large number of exposed women with breast cancer deaths, end the reporting of exposure by the spouse rather than by proxy. " Study paid by the tobacco industry? Not at all. The study is paid by (ready for this?) 1 the rabidy antismoking American Cancer Society. How come the truth is coming ' out? Is the ACS gone insane, and given in tc truthful information on tobacco? Nothing of the sort. The reason is political, for it gives the antitobacco cartel a badly needed aura of credibility without anything to lose, since the antismoking cartel has not even been able to establish a statistical link (to say nothing of proo0 between active smoking and breast cancer, let alone passive smoking. In fact, some older studies showed a slight decrease in breast cancer in smoking women. With yet another "le with scientific truth on tobacco utterly lost, the cartel actually gives up nothing, but now there is the appearance of "fairness" - in order to make all the other misinformation and frauds about smoking appear more credbfe. Nice try, guys, but we are not falling for it! A Layman's guide on how to interpret the confusing language of multifadorial c epidemiology junk silence. Thy F~t~ ^ We're bombarded by endless proclamations telling us of its honors. These claims are usually accompanied by Impressive sounding numbers. Are smokers really hurting everystrengerin thevicinity? The answer to that question is obvious once you ON SECOND- know the fads. We're not going to rety on hype or hysteria. We won? tell you we ' HAND SMOKE have The Truth. We'l! just present the hard cold facts and let you figure out The Truth for yourself" We link with www.davehitt.com The answer of the BC WCB to the questions of the hospitality industry: - DISHONESTY. OR JUST PLAT IN NCOMPETENCE? -Recently, the Cabaret AlAance of Manitoba wrote a letter to the Britjsh Columbia Workers• Compensation Board, asking, among other things, on what scientific grounds the draconian smoking bans that forbid smoking everywhere in BC except in the h~^~~ are based. The thorouJc h reDIV from. the BC WBC is, to date, among the best collections of junk science and misrepresentations of evidence ever seen in one single package. The ropy from 8C WBC is peculiar in its detailed response to the questions. The WCB bureaucrats, in the attempt to do a good job of constructing credibility through an intimidating amount of information, have concentrated a large number of antismoking elements together in one single letter, setting the stage for a massive debunking and exposure of either their incompetence or, worse, their dishonesty. Therefore, in addition to a lighter version for the general reader, we are also publishing a thorough debunking of the WCB letter that_contains 28 examples of http://vaww.forces.org/evidence/evid/second.htm 7/1/2003 E'd bSS9 996 808 paab Z~agoil eOb ~80 EO EO Imo[' FORCES International -The Evidence -Second Hand Smoke Page 3 of 13 mis~nnafion, ranging from twisted interpretation of results to outright fraudulent irdomrafion (and anything in between). For those who are interested in discovering on what flimsy and corzupt foundations smoking bans are based, as well as having a taste (...just a tasteq of the incredible amount of corruption of antitobacco, click above. (For greater detail, click here .The arrittobacco industry has been buiR through five decades of poor professional ethics, es well as public and professional misinformation. Their misinformation has been intentionally low-keyed for many years before critical mass was reached and a resulting, exploding wave of repression, legal litigation and social enmity now threatens the fabrics of sodety, scientific integrity, private business, livelihoods, schools, morals, the rule of law, and civil liberties. REANALYSIS OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE ON LUNG CANCER AND PASSIVE SMOKING - A sysfema6c review of epidemblogicat studies on passive ~ smoking estimated fire increased risk of lung cancer as 24%."... '7here is clear evidence of publication bias in these studies." "Reanalysis of the data alkwing for the possibility of publication bias substantially lowers the estimate of relative risk." If the link does not work, click here t_IKELIHOOD OF EAR INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN MAYBE INHERITED - "Babies' vulnerability to ear infections appears target' inherked, according to a study that suggests doctors might want to closet' watch siblings of children who are prone to such ailments." "Middle ear infections are the most common illness in children next to the common cold," Then, the politicaly correct, but bw-key statement "Previous ~ ~ research has shown that environmental factors can increase a child's vulnerability, including cigarette smoke and bottle feedirrg rather than breast-feeding," perhaps printed just to avoid the irritation of the aMitobaxo cartel...? Middle ear infection is in fad one afthe stalking horses of the prtrpaign against passive smoke. It is no wonder that this study was not reported by the mass-media: if casts doubts on the credibility of errtitobacco. For more information of the real p~sible causes of tobakxoaltributed disease, click here. Some important admissions by the cartel -kept quiet, of course! SeH-reporting and politically correct association of asthma with passive smoking? Yes, of course, but "...not as strong as many believe' -RISK FACTORS FOR ACUTE EXACERBATION OF SYI~II TOMS -American Lung Assodation%American Thoracic Society International Conference Day 1 -April 25, 1999 'Passive cigarette smoke often has been thought to increase the risk of active asthma, but studies to date have not demonstrated this association convincingty. Leitch at al assessed this issue in a questionnaire to more then 7,400 co/legs students... " DETERMINATION OF PERSONAL EXPOSURE TO ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE: THE "18~ITIES STUDY" -This study has been sponsored by the Center for Indoor Air Research under coMred No. ERD-88-8'12 with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corp. for the US Department of Energy under contract DA-AC-OSOR96'22464. Among the special r contributors there is RJR Tobacco Company. Does that invalidate it? Yes, according to the propaganda of the antitobakxo cartel. No, according to the simple, honest logic "'aaa+++''~~~~~~ that when the methodology and the technology is sound, A does not matter who partidpates to the research. This study is actuaNy soNd and substantial, and it confirms that the level of rt¢sclassiticaflon is up to 8 times higher than what speculated by EPA when d http://www.forces.org/evidence/evid/second.htm 7/1/2003 b"d bSS9 996 BOB paay z~agob e04=60 EO ED IrC FORCES International -The Evidence -Second Hand Smoke Page 4 of 13 performed its corrupt dassification of ETS as a class A cardnogen. That dassiflption was vacated by a US federal court. The 16-Gibes Study confirms, it there is any further need, that the EPA conclusions are erroneous and exaggerated. The study is provided with photographic documentaticn. Ifthe above link does not work, click here. EXPOSURE T_O ENVIRONME_NTAL TO_ A~CCO_ SMOKE AND RISK OF ADS OCARCINOMA OF THE LUNG -One more study exonerates second hand smoke. Despite the 'mandatory; 'politicalty correct' authors' statement about finding a t "weak" risk and Jamey trying to explain away the "protective" effect of childhood exposure, the simple tact is that they found no statistically significant assodation between ETS and lung cancer in the home or in the workplace or in the home AND the workplace. NCI'S MONOGRAPH 1r): -YESTERDAY'S REC_YC_LED GARBAGE MAKES TODAY'S NEW yIANURE - What a joke! The NCI portrays the 1997 CaI/EPA report (which made headNnes -and was debunked -two years ago) as new" and the most comprehensive report on the health risks of secerrd hand smoke ever conducted." New??? Indeed, the tobacco control gang at NCI must be desperate to try to pull this off to make tt appear as ff new, fresh "evidence" is coming up. In this subsection we can see that more "studies" on smoking are getting recycled to create the effect of a continuous stream of "evidence" that the antitobacco cartel-related press pumps out for propaganda. THE STUDY THE WHO DID NOT WANT YOU TOSEE - MULTICENTER CA:.~- CONTROLSTUDY OF~XPOSURE TO ENVIRONMEN~AI_ TOBACCO SMOKE AND LUNG CANCER IN_EUROPE -lntematronalAgency for Research on Dancer, Lyon, France - "RESULTS: ETS exposure during chiprood was Intemational Agency for Researdr on Cancer, Lyon, France - "RESULTS: ETS exposure during drildhood was not associated with an increased risk of lung cancer The OR for ever exposure to spouse/ ETS was 1.16. No deardose-response relationship could be t demonstrated for cumulative spousal ETS exposure. The OR for ever exposure to workplace ETS was 1.17, wiltr possible evidence of increasing risk for increasing duration ofexposure. No increase in risk No increase in risk was detected in sub%ects whose exposure to spousal or workplace ETS ended more than 15 years earlier. Ever exposure to ETS from other sources was not associated with lung cancer risk. To download the entire study COCK HERE. To read this piece, you must have installed Adobe Acrobat In your computer This fomrat allows you to quickly download (he document, and to reprint It in its origins! form. Click here fo get Adobe Acrobaf. TOXIC TOXICOLOG..Y;_ PLACING SCIENTIFIC CREDIBILITY AT RISK -PUBLIC COMMENT - "Liftiewood d Fennell is an irxfeperxfer7 public and hearth policy research group, ridh no ties whalscever fo industry w any government agency. I am here today on my own time and at my own expense to ad~ess the clear possibility that the National Toxicrology Program has actively undermined the process by which risk assessments should be corxlucted NTP overlooked a substantial body of evidence showing uncerteiMy, vagueness, and lack of statistical support of what is and is not carcinogenic. In addition. rv''rP conducted its assessments in a manner reminiscerdofarubberstamr .,ng,whichfavoredpolRicsoversdence." http://www.forces.org/evidence/evid/second 7/1/2003 S'd bSS9 996 808 paay ~~agob eT4~80 EO EO TnC FORCES International -The Evidence -Second Hand Smoke Page 5 of 13 To read this piece, you must have installed Adobe Acrobat in your computer. This format allows you to quickly download the document, and to reprint it in i[s original form. Click here to get free Adobe Acrobat Reader. METHODOLOGY FOR ESTIMATING SECONDHAND SMOKE EXPOSURE QUESTIONED -Simon Fraser University researchers report in the in the Od. 15 American Joumal of Epidemiology, gNJumerous studes of the effects of environmental tobacco smoke have studied the lung cancer risk of nonsmoking wives as a fundron of their husbands' smoking habits. In these spousal studies, husbands' smoking is being used as a surrogate for /ETSJ exposure. The majority of these sfuaies have largely ignored the possibility of confounding from either tared occupational exposure of the subjects or paraoccupalfona/ exposure through their spouses. Studies such as that by Forrtham, which have made some attempt to cor~o/ for ocarpabonal exposure of the subjeds, have used job classlBcatfon as a surrogate for occupations! exposure. if an attempt were made to conhol for pareoccupational exposure of the wives by their husbands, a somewhat different set of job grouplrrgs would likely be used as a surrogate for paraoccupational exposure. M either case, we have a situation in which the exposure variable arxf the confounder are both being estmated thmugh surrogates, and failure to take this into account in fire anatysis could lead to erroneous or misleading results..." [Source: "Recovering True Risks When Mutilevel Exposure and Covariable Are Both Misclassified," Am J Epidemiol 1999;150:888-91.] Simon Fraser University researchers report in the in the Oct. 15 American Joumal of Epidemiology, (NJumerous studes ofthe efieds of ~ environmental tobacco smoke have studied the lung cancer risk of nonsmoking .:;:es f~ as a fundion of their husbands' smoking habits. Jn these spousal studies, husbands' smoking is being used as a surrogate /or (ETSJ exposure. The majority of these studies have largey ignored the possibNity of confounding from either owed occupations! exposure of the subjeds or paraoccupationa/ exposure through their spouses. Studies such as that by Fontham, which have made some attempt to control for occupational exposure of the subieds, have used job classification as a surrogate fw occupations! exposure. Han attempt were made to control for pareoccupational exposure of the wives by their husbands, a somewhat different set of job groupings would likely be used as a surrogate for pareoccupational exposure. In either case, we have a situation in which the exposure variable end the confounder are both being estimated riuough surrogates, and failure to take this into account in the anatysis could/ead to erroneous ormisleading results..." [Source: "Recovering True Risks When Multilevel Exposure and Covariable Are Both Misclassified," Am J Epidemiol 1999;150:886-91 "...Could lead to erroneous or misleading results.., " I n simple, proud, politically inwrrect English, it is absolutely impossible to figure out which is what when infindesimally small amounts of chemicals that are common everywhere in most substances, inckrding ETS, are involved. In short, the statement that ETS is dangerous is a fraud. 9 " Fact Sheet on Smokin4 and the_Health of Others -From forest UK. Environmental Tobacco Smoke: NO CONVINCIN_G_EVIDENCE OF CA CR INOGENICIT1f - WFwle the anti-tobacco juggernaut seems unstoppable, more and more evidence surfaces to indicate that Environmental Tobacco Smoke causes ~ no harm. This is yet another compelling anays~ of the evidence available, prepared -t~ ~ by Littlewood 8 Fennell, P.A., Independent Public & Health Policy Research. But this squashing amount of evidence is ignored by media and politicians, for everybody is busy in looting the tobacco industry, and extortingever more taxes from its customers while destroying the foundations of personal choice and free enterprise, Though ignored, vilified, and spat upon by the dishonest and the ignorant, the tnnh http://www.fortes.org/evidencelevid/second.htm 7/1/2003 9'd bSS9 996 808 paab ~~agoy efb~80 EO EO i~C FORCES International -The Evidence -Second Hand Smoke Page 6 of l3 stands nevertheless, though it does not seem to have much effect on the unfokding events: There is no harm in secondhand smoke. MORE ETS META BS.., BUT THIS TIME. SOMEBODY DISAGRF~S - EVEN SECOND-HAND cigarette smoke is bad for your hear, a major study in The New y brgland Joume! of Medicine concluded earlier this year. No surprises there. But in addition to publishing the authors' esSmate ofhow dangerous passive smoking is, the journal took the unusue! step of running an editorial in the same issue that appeared to rubbish the research fmdings." ff the above link does not work, click here. THE US FE9ERAL COURT D~CISION,ON ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE -Here is the whale US Federal Court decision. This decision makes liars of all those "professionals" who have exposed themselves by stating that ETS hurts children and adults. It severely questions the integrity of our institutions, and tfwse ministries and department of health who have promoted smoking bans, end manipulated the public opinion irKo the perception that "smokers are killers". It accuses pafiticians, health activists, certain doctors, and whoever else has engaged in the persecution of smokers of being corrupted. The anti-smoking cartel has been officially stamped with the truth. THE AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL COURT DECISION ON ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE -The total silence of major North American media on virtually any information that could be used against the poifipl agenda of the international anti-tobacco grtel is truly astonishing. The Australian National Health & Medicel Research Council was taken to task by the tobacco industry for deliberateN suooressing sdenfific evidence. Justice Finn's findings were eloquent. Justice Finn made subsequent orders that the recommendations contained in the draft report on the estimated costs to the community of passive smoking, and for the elimination of environmental tobacco smoke in up blic places be taken out, as Mose recommendations could not be interred from the evidence contained in the report. PASSIVE SMOKETHE EPA'5..¢_~TRA_Y_AL OF SGfEJy~E AND POLICY -This book, by Dr. John Luik and Dr. Gio Gori, may go a considerable way toward changing this state of affairs. tt is a powerful and shocking critique of today's science and public policy procedures, highlighting the social and political dangers that these pose. Written in a Every and accessible style, it is an indispensable and limey "wake up call" for bath the public health community, and citizens. The authors address in detail the specific problem of the frauds about Environmental Tobacco Smoke by fhe Environmental Protection agency of the United States, agency which has the power to affect many countries outside the US. Passive Smoking. Coronary Heart Disease,_and_Meta-Analysis. - "Can mefa- analysis of epidemiologic studies on this topic provide a more reliable conclusion than a thoughtlul review of the usual type? There are reasons to think that rf cannot " These are the words of John C. Baifar lll, M.D., Ph.D. University o(Chicago. This man has bean immediately attacked by the gang of the anti-tobacco cartel (notwiUrstanding his imPe_ccable credentials - if the link does not work, click here) for speaking the truth and, as a consequence, removing credibility from the propagandists who use manipulated meta-analysis to "prove" the "dangers" of second hand smoke, and as a tool to persecute smokers, lie to the children, and forbid smoking everywhere. hrip://www.forces.org/evidencelevid/second.htm 7!1/2003 L'd bS59 996 BOB paab ~~agoa Q24~80 EO EO IBC FORCES International -The Evidence -Second Hand Smoke Page 7 of 13 E_ny_ironme~tal Tobacco Smoke and Ischaemic Heart Disease: A Case Study,in Applying Causail Criteria -Here is yet another study proving the weak, almost non- existing links between ischaemic heart disease and passive smoke. When looked at ~ in conjunction with science's most recent findings on the infectious nature of heart disease one can cleary sea that the attack on personal liberties and choice in lifestyle by the anti-tobacco "health" establishment is nothing more than a nodal control experiment with finanaal extortion overtones. There is nothing healthy about undermining scientific pdnaples. Socioeconomic Status and Indicators of Asthma in Children -Here is a 1995 Canadian study from the Respiratory Epidemiology (loft, Department of Epidemic'^gy and BiostaBstics, and Department of Sociobgy, McGip University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This study shows no association between asthma in children and Environmental Tobacco Smoke. A pet, for example, is much more likely to tie associated with child asthma then ETS. Yet, our "bones[ and concerned" health authorities have nevermentionedthe existence of this study. Like the large majority of the studies we publish, no tobacco money for this one. This research is another nail in the coffin full of lies of the antismoking gang. The NTP_Board of Scientific Coun~ors on Carcinogens Subcommittee {exeerpt from ETS discus~ionl: A Direct Assault on Key Scient"rfic t?rinciples - Here is yet another piece of evidence of the scientific and moral corruption of anti- smoking "science", and the sold-out scientists at the service of the anti-tobacco cartel. Notwfthstanding the ABSOLUTE unreliability of the evidence examined, the NTP Board of Scientific Counselors on Carcinogens Subcommittee decided unaninrousty what was already pofiticaity established: to recommend that ETS be fisted as a human cardnogen, in spite of the 45teen ruling. This stomach-turning blatant display of corruption in fhe face of reality is yet another indication that these gangsters feel protected in their behaviour by the powers that be; thus they can get away with the murder of silence for political gain. Gross and Brown: Dogfighting Over aNon-Existent Bone - We report on a study performed by Alan J. Gross of the Department of Blametry and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, concerning the deaths allegedly caused by secondhand smoke, and an ensuing debate with Stephen K. Brown from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and Health Behaviour Research Group at the University of Waterloo. Gross, performing the study with a grant from Philip Mords, finds that the deaths attributed to secondhand smoke cannot be -Y substantiated by the data. Of course Brown, notorious mouthpiece of the arNi- tobacco cartel, disagrees. After the reported back-and-forth cortespondence, where mathematical dexterity is shown in abundance on both sides, Brown pulls the usual stunt of Doti-tobacco.... It is incredible that on these flimsy foundations -and on these foundatons alone -immense fortunes have been wasted by governments and made by the looters, and an entire sub-economy has been created to support those who out of cheating and lying have made a profession. Environmental Tobacco Smoke And Coronary Heaf Syndromes: Absence Of An Association -The lack of association between secondhand snaking and coronary heart syndrome is clearly and unequivocally demonstrated in this work. The anti-tobacco cartel has gone to great extents in trying to link ETS with heart disease. t Faced with its own utter failure, the cartel has then turned to political force and total corruption of silence to impose its view, and fie to media and the general public. This pirranal behaviour must be punished. For the first time ever, the whole contents of this important work are accessible to the lay person, and to the truly independent researcher. The work is no longer restricted to "political" saence, its interpreters, and ffs corrupted mouthpieces, for the unknown people who post Dr. Gori's works on this http://www.forces.org/evidence/evid/second.htm 7/1/2003 B'd bSS9 996 BOB paa,y y~agob eZb ~BO EO EO i~C FORCES International -The Evidence -Second Hand Smoke Page 8 of 13 anonymous site have now added this one. M_a'ol r IARC Study Shown that Secondhand Smoke Poses No_Cancer Risk to ~C`am~), ~ Children - We are pleased that yet another major study shows that the dangers of ;3'w•' secondhand smoke are in6nitesimalry small - if they exist at aN. But after so many 3333'""'"~~~~ studies on ETS, it is now time to make some serious and sad considerations. Scienc~Poi- 'cs and Ethics: The Case of Environ._mental Tobacco Smoke - 'The right of intffividuak to smoke has been a vexing obstade in the campaign against smoking. S(retegists have tong sought to restrict this right, if !t could be represented (hat exposure o/non-smokers to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) constitutes a heaAth risk. Massive resources have been directed toward produdng the desired evidence, but f 5 years of inveslrgatlons have yielded ambiguous results which permit openty hypothetical conjectures." When You Can_Prove that Anti-to, acco Lies the Perpetrators Just Switch to ' Another Liar -Thanks to the commendable and relentless work of Wanda Hamilton, it turns out that the colossal fraud by the American Cancer Sodety (scaled down and parroted, of course, by the Canadian antismoking carteq about the 53,000 Gves claimed by secondhand smoke(!, and attributed to the EPA, never came from that agency. Pushed to the wall and dandng between assorted answers for quite a while, y the ACS now admits that the figure comes from professional antismoker "spokesman" Stanton Gtarr>z. Not even the EPA has the stomach to lie this much, as they claim "only" 3,D00 "victims "The real number, of course, "0," for NOT ONE of the ETS-attributed deaths can be substantiated. The corrupt media that has promoted the false advertisement is, of course, far from admitting its complicity in the fraud. The Risk of Corona~_Heart Disease in non-smokers exposed to Environmental Tobacco Smoke -Research article - Dr. Alan J. Gross pulls no punches in this research erode on ETS: "The roxicologrcal evidence provided by Glantz and Pamrley has been challenged by Wu and by Gori, among others. Moreover, the epx/emiobgic data considered by Glantz and Parmley are equivocal at best and do not indude data from the American Cancer Sodety's Cancer Preven(ron Strrdes (CPS-Q and (CPS-!I and the Nations! Mortality Fo!lowback Survey which, when added to the original epidemiobgic database considered by Glantz and Pannley, indreate no statisScaUy significant association." Passive Smokers Inhale 6 giaarettes.per Year- "The figure, which undermines previous warnings about the dangers of passive smoking, is a thousand times lower than that laced by direct smokers, and so tiny that d could not be measured ;231 t statistically. Results from personal air monitors carried by more that 1,000 people m t~J cities across Europe reveal that even the most highly~xposed passive smoker inhales the equivalent of 0.02 of a dgareffe a day - 10 times tower Nran Govemment- backed estimates." H c Passive Smoke and Disease: an Incredible Story I R List of all the Studies Ever Perf_Qrmed on Second Hand Smoke Lung Cancer, H e and Heart Disease - In order to counter the new volley of lies by the anti-tobacco L P cartel since the exposure of the EPA fraud by the US federal court, FORCES t H pubNshes of the complete lists of ALL the studies ever performed on secondhand O Y smoke, lung cancer, and heart disease. The lists are updated to January 1st, 1998. http:Jlwww.forces.org/evidence/evid/second.htm 7/1/2003 6'd bSS9 996 806 paab z~agoa eEb ~60 EO EO inC FORCES International -The Evidence -Second Rand Smoke Page 9 of ] 3 Lies Damn Lies... - A CLOSER LOOK AT STATfS71CS ON SMOKING AND HEALTH - In these two learned papers Professor Finch does not challenge the often heavily qualified findings of various researchers on the possible effect of smoking on health. As a professional statistician, his ony interest is in the way such "facts" are presented to the innocent public for the purposes of propaganda, thus in Part I he documents how public opinion has been fumed -often viciously -against smokers for fear of being harmed by'passive smoking.' It turns out that available research provides no acceptable saentific basis for such atrumped-up danger. ( In Part II, he provides a further corrective to alarmist health warnings which can be • grasped wdhout spedalist statistical knowledge. Prof. Peter Finch has been Foundation Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Monash University, Australia, since 1964. He has contributed la countless scholady journals including The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Information Seances, The Australian Jouma! of Statistics, The Jouma! of the Royal Statistical Society, Ada Mathematics Scientia, Biometrics, The European Journal of Cancer and CI(nical Oncobgy, as well as to such books as The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, The Encyclopecta of Statistics/ Science and The Foundations of Statistical Theories in the Physical Sciences. Science You Won't Read in_Your Dailv Newsoaper - Yau don't see this information published in the newspapers. You donY hear it from the politicians. The antismoking lobbyists maintain utter silence, of course. Talking about it is not "kosher." Bu! - true. In this easy-to-understand compendium written by Martha Perske, and I published on the site of the National Smokers Alliance, we see the simple, plain truth: NONE of the "studies" about the dangers of secondhand smoke has indicated any `"3'~~.•••"''~~~~ statistically significarR increase of danger for health in non-smokers exposed to it. In fact, NONE of the studies but one has found ANY LINK AT ALL. Downbad this important page and use it against the crooks, the misinformed, and the fanatics who are determined to tell everyone else how to live their lives. The Response of the Canadian_Tobacco Manufactyre.rs~o_y_ncil to B.C, AAnistry of Health Misinfo_ 'on - We cannot think of any better way to highlight the shameful ignorance and incompetence of the BC Ministry of Health than this letter from the Canadian Tobacw Manufacturers Counal to the new BC Minister of Health, Penny Priddy, in response to a recent speech and anlitobacco campaign by Joy MacPhail (past Minister). Readand download this letter for future reference, for it corrects a number of "facts"that the antismoking cartel uses to lie to the population, t and to our children in school. The Ministry of Health, for example, confuses Propylene glycol, a hanniess food additive used in cigarettes, with poisonous Ethyl glycol, used -among other things - in automobiles' radiators as antifreeze. Yet, the propaganda machine of the M, of H, says and prints that tobacco companies use antifreeze a5 additive in tobeccol Honest ignorance, or dishonest misrepresentation? Either way, these individuals are allowed to regulate health resources, interfere with business, and over regulate ourlrves. ETS Heart Disease Studv Is EQidemiologic Malpractice -This study is fraudn!?nt, because the authors knowingly left out the risk factors that realty cause excess heart disease in snpkers and in passive smokers. And Howard's boast to the media that ~ "1Ne threw the kitchen sink at the data, and still couldnY make it go away," (Knight- Bidder) is an outright lie. This study and the editorial also fail to mention Helicrobacter pylori and Chlamyofa pneumoniae infection, which many studies have linked to cardiovascular disease. Nor is there mention of C-reactive protein, a general marker of inflammation. Continuous Assessment of Indoor Fine Particles Wkh a Portable Nephelometer htip://www.forces.org/evidence/evidlsecond.htm 7!]/2003 OI'd bSS9 996 608 paay z~ago21 eEb~80 EO EO TIC' FORCES international -The Evidence -Second Hand Smoke Page 10 of 13 -The following paper describes the results of a study completed in 1996 in Vancouver. Here are some conckuions we may infer from the discussion of results: 1 (1) 7frere is lithe dllference between the non-smoking resfaurents and the non- smoking sections of restaurants with designated smoking areas. (2) Cooking can lead to particulate levels in non-smoking establishments as high as those in establishments that allow smoking. Introduction by Stephen Stewart, PhD., P.Eng. A_Resoonse to: "Towards Healthier.Cornmunities_in Nova Scotia: a Discussion Paper" - We are proud to present one of the most powerful critiques of the ETS scam ever written. In this Paper, John Luik destroys one by one all the False statements and junk science pertinent to ETS. In plain Engish, devoid of the technicalities that 9 can confuse the lay person, John shows how the corrupted junk scientists, the antismokers, and the public health authorities have betrayed the trtut of the taxpaying atizens in ways that are, in our opinion, morally, politicaly and even legaly nothing short of criminal, and as such they shoukt be legafiy prosecuted, and punished accordingly. Who Did Them? -After the pubNCation of the bibliography "Childhood ETS Does Not Cause Lung Cancer" antismokers and their parrots in the media barked: "Studies paid by the tobacco industryr" If there is something the antismoking dogs ' don`t have, it is imagination. DonY they get tired of always barking the same sorg9 Of course, the studies are NOT paid by the tobacco industry, but they ARE contrary to these dogs' agenda! I nside, the complete list of the funding, study by study. ETS _Does Not Cause Otkis Media -Here we examine one of the most utilized ties of the antismoking cartel: ETS causes middle ear infection in children. The analysis ~ of this important, non-tobacco funded study clearly disproves ANY ASSOCIATION between ETS and otitis media. Yet the racket of the non-profits, the gangs of certain medical associations, and their enablers in the public health departments go around promoting absurd lies about this issue, while innocent people drink ft all in. Workplace ETS Does Not Cause Luna Cancer -The antismoking cartel is irnesting a lot of tax money in pushing absurdity to aediWlity: ETS ki0s. Of course, this is a lie E c motivated by dollars and political gains, as proven not just by electronic errbssion i R anayzers, bu[ even by silence. Of course, the last statement refers to science that s A has not been tampered with, such as the two latest "hits" recently published on the L P BMJ, where the confidence intervals were at 90 as opposed to 95%, and where i ~ important studies demonstreting no association wNh ETS were excluded, and junk ~ Y studies not considered even by anlistnoking gangs like the EPA were included to create statistical significance. The CRS Rep. oft...- Testimot~. May 11.1994_Jane E. Gravelle senior specialist Congressional Research Service Senate EnvironmentlClean Air and Nuclear Regulation Hearth Effects of Environmental Tob_.acco Srnoge (Complete original 1 document - 0.98 Mb) - "Our evaluation of that evidence led to two conclusions: first, the evidence that passive smoking causes disease is Tar less certain than the effects for active smoking; sewnd, the health costs of these potential passive smoking eftecta, which we translated into a tax per pack, are likely to be quite small." Click here to pet a rroo wpy of Adobe Acrobat. The CRS Re~rort -The US Congressional Research Study that criticizes, even ~ 9 discredits, the findings of EPA on Environmental Tobacco Smoke. European Working Group on Envronmental_Tobacco Smoke and Lu~Cancer http://www.forces.org/evidence/evid/second.hlm 7/1/2003 Ti `d bSS9 996 808 paay z~agoy ebb=80 EO EO InC FORCES International -The Evidence -Second Hand Smoke Page 11 of 13 Y - A tobacco industry funded study disproving the dangers of Environmental Tobacco • Smoke. Airliner Cabin Environment: Contaminant Measurements Health Risks, and Mitt atg ion O tp ions -The DIRECT MEASUREMENT study (no statistics) 1 commissioned by US Department Of Transport to ascertain the dangers of Environmental Tobacco Smoke. When R demonstrated that k takes over 48,D00 hrs of exposure to ETS to inhale the equivalent of one cigarette, itwas quickly buried! Never Smoker ung_ ncer Risks From _ExposureTo_Particulate Tobacco ~ Smoke - A study that demonstrates that the dangers of being struck by lightening (one in a milion) far exceed the dangers of exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke. A ritical_Examination of OSHAS Amassment Of Risk Associated WRh f orkplace Exposure To Environmental Tobacco Smoke -A Canadian study demonstrating the methodology flaws on the danger assessments of Environmental Tobacco Smoke. Assessment of Volatile Hydrocarbons from_Tgbacco Smoke and from Vehicle Emissions - A DIRECT MEASUREMENT study (no statistics) from Sweden. This • ° one demonstrates that a person driving a car downtown is exposed to the same amounts of pollutants as being in a smoky cafe'... but kids are not forbidden from riding in cars! Ischemic_Heart Disease And Spousal Smoking,ln The National Mortality f Followback $urv~ -'No overall spousal smoking-heart disease risk elevation was observed for either males or females", this study says. Analysis Of The California EPA Report On__Secondhand Smoke -The latest q weapon of the antismoking industry is dismantled in this analysis. Manipulated charts & figures, lack of solid links, unverified data... More of the same in the construction of the "mountain of evidence" against smoking. Assessment of air qualrtv in Stgckholm by personal monitoring of nonsmokers for respirable suspended particles and environmental tobacco smoke -This ~ study of actual exposure to ETS supports Jenkins' work, and confirms that non- ; smokers working with smokers would be exposed to 0.1-0.2 cigarette equivalent at work. It also says "Over 70°.6 of all the nicotine measurements and 60°~ of all the ETS measurements were below the LOO [Limits of Quantification]" Assessment Of_Non-Smokers' Exposure To Environmental Tobacco Smoke Using Personal-E~osure And Fixed-Location_Monitoring -This demonstrates the feasibility of appying available advanced ventilation systems to dilute secondhand smoke (ETS) to a level that is below the most rigid standards. Once • again, this is a Mrect measurement study - no stafistics. You will notice that in order to read the emissions of ETS, the insfrumentation had to he sensitive enough to pick up emissions from common o1(ce glue, and inks! Parenta.I Smoking Does Nqt Cause Kids Cancer -There have been a number of studies investigating possible inks between parental smoking and childhood cancer, and tha media only publidzed the ones which claimed big risks. But censidedng the numbers of cases in other studies, fhe evidence is overwhelming that there 's no assoaation between parental smoking and childhood cancer, esperaaiy with http://www.forces.org/evidence/evid/second.htm 7/1!2003 ZI'd bSS9 996 808 paay 1~agoa e54~80 EO EO d~C FORCES International -The Evidence -Second Hand Smoke Page 12 of 13 e c r g leukemia, the most-hyped supposed risk. se L P t x O Y Child ood_ETS Dges_N4] pause Lung Canter -The EPA has no justifiption for B c pretending that childhood exposure to ETS causes lung cancer later. The overall t H relatNe risk from 11 studies worldwide is 0.96 (0.85-1.09) (Lee PN. Letter]. JNCI e e 1993;85(9):748), which is unequivocally no risk. 75% of US subjects were in studies L P with risks of LESS THAN one. But instead of revealing these statistics to the public, t ~ the arrti~smoking demagogues cherry-pick the highest risk and misrepresent it as the O Y weight of the evidence, and the media collude with their deceit. Socioeconomic Status and Indicators of Asthma in Children -Here is a 1995 Canadian study from the RespirMory Epidemiology Unit DepaortrneM of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and 17epartment of Sodokogy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This study shows no association between asthma in children and d Environmental Tobacco Smoke. A pet, for example, is much more likely to be assodated with child asthma than ETS. Yet, our "honest" health authorities have never mentioned the existence of this study. Like the large majority of the studies we publish, no tobacco money for this one. This research is another nail in the coffin full of lies of the antismoking gang. The EPA's "Background ETS"And Other Frauds - An anatysis of how EPA manipulated the figures to get at the famous false figure of 3,000 death a year from secondhand smoke by using EPA's own tables! The great crime ofthe tax-funded I "heath" organizations is the use of credibility gained in the past for the dissemi~~*on of conclusions that cannot possibly be verified by the lay person for both lack of data, and knowledge. Non tax-funded, or unbiased scientists who can see through the manipulation of data are promptly discredited as tobacco sympathizers, and don't find a voice in the media. We are attempting to simpfty the anatytical process to make it more comprehensible for the lay person. No, Positive Evidence Of a Link Between_SIDS and Secon_d_Hand Smoking -The C~~ q Chikirens' Hospital of Los Angeles exposes the antismoking industry's lies about a r~7~ "link" between secondhand smoking and Sidden Infant Death Syndrome: NO EVIDENCE. Plan_ False Statements About ETS _Confusion By The Numbers - Hokd onto your hats. Anismoking gangsters and their media accomplices issued this news report via Assoaated Press on March 2, 1997. In it, you read that a study finds that secondhand smoke kills 4,700 nonsmoking Californians each year, while 35,000 to 62,000 ETS-related deaths take place nationwide, 4,200 to 7,400 in California alone. We're told lung cancer caused by environmental tobacco smoke kills 3,000 Ameripns each year, 360 of them Californians. Meanwhile, a Harvard study claims ~ that 6,700 children a year are killed by ETS. Why is it that EPA has kept a skeptical distance from the 30,000-0eath ETS figure, while this CaAfornia report modifies it to a y^' wide 35,000 to 62,000? In the meantime, the American Medical Assoaafion talks about 53,000 non-smokers killed by ETS year, while New York City's Public Advocate Mark Green claims that 100,000 Americans are killed by ETS. Confused? So are we. The criminal shotgun practice of scaring the public by throwing out enormous, random, upon-theair death figures is well known by anyone who is involved in the fight against this fraud. But here is something you donY know: THIS "STUDY" IS NOT A STUDY. http://www.forces.orgJevidence/evid/second.htm 7/1/2003 EI'd bSS9 996 808 paab 1~agob eSb ~80 EO EO inC r`URCES International -The Evidence -Second Hand Smoke Page 13 of 13 The Text of the Epidemiologist's Review of EPA Report. on Passive Smoking - FORCES Canada has come in possession of this interesBng document. It was written by the EPA's reviewing Epidemiologist. The 1992 EPA study on passive smoking is ~ the "big gun" of the ant~moking industry, fired continuously to add credibiity to their w~l#~ claims. Well, read the comments yourself. Then consider that thls study is at the base 777"'...""""' of US and Canadian government decisions to suppress the right to smoke, and to interfere into the lives of dtizens, and their business. If the big gun is this flawed, what about the rest of the ammunitions? Text Of EPA's Research And Development Environmental Criter~ And Assessment Office lEPA 12eoort On Passive Smoking) -More hard evidence about the EPA's political marripulatian of data on passive smoking. This time, here is the communication of the Criteria and Assessment Office to the EPA's Directorate. ' Notice the opposition of the Assessment Office to the classification of passive smoking as a Class A cardnogen because of lack of evidence. ETS does not deserve this classification, but the pofiticiarrs know better. They know when iCs time to lie to the nation, to the world, and to the foolish believers. PLEASE NOTE: all original evidence on file. OraLCymments to CAL-EPA on Section 7.2 of_Extemal Review Draft -Excerpt; ETS and Lung Cancer - A report written by Dc William Butler, Ph.D. showing ffie faulty conclusions of the EPA classification of secondhand smoke. The EPA report was Iargey based on the Fontham Study. In studying the raw data, Dr. Buller found MAJOR errors in the report the EPA used as a main guideline to take action against smoking. Coming soon, the full report as submitted to fhe U.S. Dept of Labor denoundng the "conclusions" of the Fontham study. It states why the secondhand smoke classification is based on untruths and misclassification. http://www.forces.org/evidence/evid/second.htm 7/1/2003 bi'd bSS9 996 808 Paa21 1-+a9o21 e94~80 EO EO TIC