I just sent the message below to one member of the forum, but I thought you would all like to see it. Clark Griffith**************************************
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Just to give some facts, there are about 170,000 cases of lung cancer diagnosed each year. Second hand smoke may be a factor in 3,000 cases among non smokers. That is 1.76%. Death from radon gas is estimated by researchers at Iohns Hopkins at 12% of lung cancer deaths. Thanks, C. Griffith
From USA TODAY on 3/8/2005:
"A scientific review panel is expected to approve the report as early as Monday and forward it to the Air Resources Board, which has broad state authority to regulate air pollution.
"The 1,200-page report analyzes new data on the extent of Californians' exposure to secondhand smoke and more than 1,000 studies of health effects from secondhand smoke.
"The conclusion that secondhand smoke causes breast cancer, particularly in younger women, challenges conventional scientific thinking because most studies, until recently, had found no connection between female smokers and breast cancer.
"But California scientists based their conclusion on recent human studies that they determined had more careful assessments of long-term exposure to tobacco smoke. The report also gave more weight to toxicology evidence from animal studies than previous studies by the surgeon general and others. It's well-documented that chemicals from cigarettes cause breast cancer in lab animals.
"Overall, women exposed to secondhand smoke have up to a 90% greater risk of breast cancer, the report says. It says secondhand smoke kills as many as 73,400 a year in the USA.
So I guess we don't have to worry about any secondhand smoke our mothers, sisters and daughters are exposed to because the only work they can find is bartending or waitressing. If someone chooses to blow smoke in their faces it should be perfectly legal. Let's paint our kids toys with lead paint again and switch back to mercury thermometers while we're at it because it is what we grew up with and it makes us feel comfortable!
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