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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 10, 1998

Secondhand smoke study suppressed by WHO
"The world's leading health organization has withheld from publication a study which shows that not only might there be no link between passive smoking and lung cancer but that it could even have a protective effect."
"The astounding results are set to throw wide open the debate on passive smoking health risks. The World Health Organization, which commissioned the 12-centre, seven-country European study has failed to make the findings public, and has instead produced only a summary of the results in an internal report."
- "Passive smoking doesn't cause cancer - official," by Victoria Macdonald, Health Correspondent, The Daily Telegraph, March 8, 1998

"We have said for the longest time that the dangers of secondhand smoke are a hoax designed for political purposes. Now, finally some of the evidence about this mountain of exaggerations and unfounded allegations about ETS is making it through to the press," he added.

"There is no doubt that the antismoking cartel is beginning to lose this war. The public -- and even the mainstream press -- are beginning to see the other side of the coin. This is not about health, it's about political control, state interference, and financial looting. We hope that with time some common sense will prevail, some of the major actors of the antismoking movement will be exposed, and the issue will be finally put to rest", Turci concluded.

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