Summary
Randomised, controlled trials of the effects of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) have not been carried out. This leaves us with the problem of attempting to draw inferences from non- experimental data when assessing the risks of ETS. Such inferences are inevitably fragile. Yet the pro-ban lobby groups, some funded by public money, pretend they know the truth - that X people die a year as a result of exposure to ETS. This is dishonest. We do not really know. I have no links with the tobacco industry or licensed trade, but do have expertise in testing hypotheses using non-experimental data.
The pro-ban groups posture as promoters of the public good: they know what is best for us. They portray themselves as striving to improve the state of public health in the face of the malevolent opposition of the tobacco and licensed-trade lobbies. Yet they are quite happy to gas pedestrians by driving their cars in public places - ie, urban areas. This is the height of hypocrisy. If the executive had posed the issue of restrictions on smoking in public places in the wider context of environmental effects on health it might have persuaded more people.See the full content of this document
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Height of Hypocrisy
Smoking bans did not figure...
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