The Heartland Institute

An American Council on Science and Health article opines on the "conscious avoidance" of general and scientific media outlets to report on the overwhelming amount of studies that fail to identify a link between secondhand smoke and risk of lung cancer. ACSH Advisor Dr. Geoffery Kabat blames such media negligence for the fact ...

( Orginally posted at Politico ) Former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, who highlighted the dangers of secondhand smoke and supported a ban on all tobacco products, is joining the board of directors for NJOY, the nation’s leading electronic cigarette company, a move that could bring increased legitimacy to e-cigarettes as ...

The abuse of scientific integrity and the generation of faulty “scientific” outcomes (through the use of pseudo-science) have led to deception of the American public on a grand scale with respect to secondhand smoke, and to draconian government over-regulation and the squandering of public monies. ...

Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is an unpleasant experience for many nonsmokers, and for decades was considered a nuisance. But the idea that it might actually cause disease in nonsmokers has been around only since the 1970s. Recent surveys show more than 80 percent of Americans now believe secondhand smoke is harmful ...

The stakes are high in the public policy arena. Public health scientists will continue to be called on to research society’s most vexing issues, and to inform and shape the public policy response. We need to be aware of the competing interests and to work for greater transparency to assure ourselves that we understand the ...

More than a year has passed since U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona said, "The debate is over. The science is clear: Secondhand smoke is not a mere annoyance, but a serious health hazard." At the time, Carmona released a seemingly impressive 727-page report on secondhand smoke, the introduction of which claims secondhand ...

This analysis presents a detailed defense of my epidemiologic research in the May 17, 2003 British Medical Journal that found no significant relationship between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and tobacco-related mortality. In order to defend the honesty and scientific integrity of my research, I have identified and addressed ...

Should it be permissible — in an avowedly enlightened and rational society — to legislate draconian regulation solely because some high priesthood of epidemiology thinks there might be some ephemeral risk, without any testable clue to its quantification or probability? Indeed, who stands to gain from such a distortion? To ...

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Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has important public health implications. It has been classified as a lung carcinogen and has been shown to have adverse health effects on adults and children, including heart disease and respiratory disorders. ETS exposure has been measured by different methods such as questionnaires ...

When anti-smoking activists pushed to ban smoking in workplaces, and then in restaurants, and now even in bars, supporters of freedom of choice warned the alleged health risk to non-smokers was merely a smokescreen for activists to build momentum to ban the use of all tobacco products, anywhere and at any time. Now, their ...

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A 38-year study of Californians, begun by the American Cancer Society and concluded by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), has concluded that secondhand smoke has little if any negative impact on mortality. The study, published in the May 17 issue of the British Medical Journal , throws cold water on the ...

Several major reviews have determined that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke increases the relative risk of coronary heart disease, based primarily on comparing never smokers married to smokers with never smokers married to never smokers. The American Heart Association, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and ...

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