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  • From: Doug Sutton <creeksidedls AT mindspring.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Local 506 and Cookies (was Local 506 vs. Smoking)
  • Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:14:19 -0400

Chris Calloway wrote:
this is just how ridiculous things have become:

http://www.joejackson.com/news.php?id=81&m=07&y=2007

What an interesting take by Mr. Jackson. I can feel his anger, his vitriol, even.

There are loads of studies on the issue, including this one:

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/factsheets/factsheet6.html

the summary of which contains this nugget:

/The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General/ was prepared by the Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Report was written by 22 national experts who were selected as primary authors. The Report chapters were reviewed by 40 peer reviewers, and the entire Report was reviewed by 30 independent scientists and by lead scientists within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services. Throughout the review process, the Report was revised to address reviewers' comments.

So, hmmm, who do I believe? The consensus of 92 scientists, or Joe Jackson? Remember, this is a guy who moved away from New York when they passed a smoking ban. He doesn't have a bias in all this, does he?

There are always gonna be people who don't care if you pile up a mountain of evidence in front of them. They're still gonna believe that there were weapons of mass destruction, or the earth isn't really warming, or that the government flew missles into the World Trade Center.




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