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PLAIN FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT ETS:
CONFUSION BY THE NUMBERS
Hold onto your hats. This news report via Associated Press goes back to March 2, 1997. In it, you read that a study finds that secondhand smoke kills
4,700 nonsmoking Californians each year, while 35,000 to 62,000 ETS-related deaths take place nationwide, 4,200 to 7,400 in California alone.
We're told lung cancer caused by environmental tobacco smoke kills 3,000 Americans each year, 360 of them Californians. Meanwhile, a Harvard
study claims that 6,700 children a year are killed by ETS. Why is it that central EPA has long taken its distance from the 30,000-death ETS figure,
while this California report modifies it to a wide 35,000 to 62,000? In the meantime, the American Medical Association talks about 53,000
non-smokers killed by ETS year, while New York City's Public Advocate Mark Green claims that 100,000 Americans are killed by ETS. Confused?
So are we. The criminal shotgun approach practice of scaring the public by throwing at it enormous, random, up-in-the-air death figures is well known
by anyone who is involved in the fight against this fraud.
Preface by Carol Thompson
Here's a particularly piece of ETS hate propaganda the media have disseminated.
The important point is that this is not a study. It is just the antismokers' usual trick of applying their same
old fraudulent computer program to raw demographic data, and spewing forth a bogus ETS death toll.
It re-perpetrates all the epidemiological malpractice that I have exposed in "Deconstructing the anti-
smoking movement".
And then they lie to us that they did a "study", when all they did was regurgitate their same old garbage.
It's instant computer-generated propaganda: just add heated rhetoric and spew it in the public's faces.
Remember, the anti-smoking movement exists ONLY because of the media conspiracy set out to ram it
down the public's unwilling throats. They railroaded their smoking bans through on the "strengths" of a
corrupt EPA report; claiming to "save " people from an asthma death rate that's tripled since they came
along; and making sacred cows out of a good squad of hyperventilators who accuse smokers of harming
them, even when they know that the EMTs actually treated them for hyperventilation, not asthma.
These people should pay for everything they've done to humiliate and degrade smokers. We should not
be satisfied until they've paid with every stick of property, and every penny they have made while lying
to entire nations, and an entire generation, and trying to commit cultural genocide on smokers.
Please note: because of the strict copyright claim from Associated Press, we are unable to copy
the press release verbatim. We are reporting the same contents in indirect form. Copy of the press release
is on file, and available upon request.
Study: Secondhand smoke kills
Science and Medicine
AP 2-Mar-1997 12:02 EST REF5139
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)
"Secondhand smoke kills at least 4,700 nonsmoking Californians each year and causes respiratory
illnesses in tens of thousands of children, according to a new state study" the report says.
And: "The state EPA report concludes that there is sufficient evidence from the body of existing
research to conclude that secondhand smoke is responsible for a wide variety of health problems,
including premature births, sudden infant death syndrome, lung cancer and heart disease."
[...] [...]
"The reports estimates that secondhand smoke caused between 35,000 and 62,000 deaths
nationwide from heart attack and stroke, and between 4,200 and 7,440 such deaths in California
alone."
"In comparison, environmental tobacco smoke is responsible for ling cancer that kills 3,000
Americans each year, 360 of them Californians."
"Among the findings of the California study is that secondhand tobacco smoke hits the children
of smokers especially hard. The study blames secondhand smoking for up to 3,000 new childhood
asthma cases in California each year and for as many as 188,000 doctor visits for middle-year
infections."
Courtesy of Carol Thompson 08/23/93
Smokers' Rights Action Group
P.O. Box 259575
Madison, WI 53725-9575
Phone: 608-249-4568
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