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Timber, you apparently misread my post. I did not say that smoking was not harmful. I did say that from the studies, you cannot make that determination. It is kind of a subtle distinction, maybe, but no more so than you must encounter on a daily basis. The defense may not disagree that they may have harmed someone else, but demand that the plaintiffs prove that. Obviously, polling the first 22 people out of the Hard Rock Cafe in Cancun would not be considered a methodologically rigorous proof of damage from dog poop in Hyde Park. If one wants to coerce another on the basis of some scientific study, at the very least, that study should not be flawed.
My point is not so much that passive smoke doesn't harm you. I, too, am a believer, though at least can appreciate that I don't have any real, solid proof to point at, making this more a matter of faith than of mind...
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