26-12-2010, 10:37 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Sidestream smoke
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Toxicological experiments with fresh sidestream smoke
Environmental Protection Agency website
The EPA report is worthless because its hysterical claims are based on lifestyle questionnaire studies that ignored the role of HPV infection. Even then, there had been at least half a dozen studies implicating HPV as a cause of lung cancer. Smokers and passive smokers are more likely to have been exposed to this virus for socioeconomic reasons. Since then, there have been more than 50 studies of HPV and lung cancer. So the EPA report is completely obsolete.
Furthermore, the EPA's own scientists were against call ETS a human carcinogen. But they didn't write the report! It was written by handpicked anti-smoker cronies of Jonathan M. Samet (who was on the EPA board, as well as being a major author in every Surgeon General report since the 1980s, including the latest one). They used illegal pass-through contracts, which went through a subcontractor, to conceal their role. And on the board of directors of the crooked EPA contracting firm, ICF Inc., sat a major crony of President George H.W. Bush, Fred Malek, campaign manager of the Bush-Quayle campaign in 1992 and a partner in the Texas Rangers. A prominent Democrat was on the board of ICF as well.
http://www.smokershistory.com/etslies.htm