ANOTHER VOICE IN THE CRY FOR THE TRUTH

Our research brought us to Professor Theodore Sterling, a scientist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

We then discovered that, in a series of scientific papers published in leading journals, Professor Sterling and his collegues have for several years been challenging faulty assumptions and statistical analyses that have produced now commonly-accepted claims concerning secondhand smoke and mortality rates in connection with tobacco use.

We also learned that, because his work led him to "politically incorrect" conclusions, he has had to face some undesirable consequences, such as being attacked by the politically-correct-on-tobacco establishment, and ignored by the media at large. That has left him disillusioned about the state of scientific objectivity on this issue.

Since then, Professor Sterling has been silent.

Upon our request, however, he has now kindly provided us with copies of his work, and permission to publish his findings.

Accordingly, we are reproducing the paper "Risk Attribution and Tobacco-Related Deaths" by Sterling et al, which originally appeared in the American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 138, No. 2, 1993. We also reproduce the authors' layman's summary of the findings of this study, "A Non-Technical Discussion of 'Risk Attribution and Tobacco Related Deaths.'" We wish to thank Professor Sterling for allowing us to share his valuable work. In the near future, FORCES Canada hopes to publish more of Professor Sterling's research for our readers.