Welcome to the Scientific Evidence Portal on smoking. This area is meant as an educational tool to debunk misinformation and exaggerations about active and passive smoking, and it may be a valuable source of information for researchers. This archive is frequently updated, and we invite you to visit it often. If this is your first visit here, you may wish to read our section Getting The Most From The Evidence Portal

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Active Smoking

Is active smoking as deadly as the propaganda tells us? Is it true that there is a unanimous “consensus”? Is ...
Ethics

Ethics

Today it seems that criticizing the attitude and the validity of the research of those who push a panic button ...

Passive smoking (ETS)

Here is the complete list of the primary studies on passive smoking and lung cancer. They are all based on ...

Socio Economics

Active smoking is often represented as the sole cause of lung cancer and heart disease amongst many other diseases attributed ...

Taxation

Taxation is often promoted by bureaucrats as a tool to pilot the choices of people, as they believe that they ...