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[Doug Sutton <creeksidedls AT mindspring.com>]

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.