-Caveat Lector- You cannot reach definitive conclusions from only one study, especially one that contradicts previous studies. Inhailing unfiltered tobacco smoke, which contains high concentrations of radon gas as well as tar and nicotine is highly likely to be carcinogenic and cause other health problems. That's just common sense. But if you are a smoker and it makes you feel better when you are polluting the air around you, then maybe this study has some value after all. Have fun. Steve On 24 Mar 01, at 9:57, tnohava wrote: > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=00Passive smoking doesn't cause cancer - > official > By Victoria Macdonald, Health Correspondent > > THE world's leading health organisation has withheld from publication a > study which shows that not only might there be no link between passive > smoking and lung cancer but that it could even have a protective effect. > > The astounding results are set to throw wide open the debate on passive > smoking health risks. The World Health Organisation, which commissioned the > 12-centre, seven-country European study has failed to make the findings > public, and has instead produced only a summary of the results in an > internal report. > > Despite repeated approaches, nobody at the WHO headquarters in Geneva would > comment on the findings last week. At its International Agency for Research > on Cancer in Lyon, France, which coordinated the study, a spokesman would > say only that the full report had been submitted to a science journal and no > publication date had been set. > > The findings are certain to be an embarrassment to the WHO, which has spent > years and vast sums on anti-smoking and anti-tobacco campaigns. The study is > one of the largest ever to look at the link between passive smoking - or > environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) - and lung cancer, and had been eagerly > awaited by medical experts and campaigning groups. > > Yet the scientists have found that there was no statistical evidence that > passive smoking caused lung cancer. The research compared 650 lung cancer > patients with 1,542 healthy people. It looked at people who were married to > smokers, worked with smokers, both worked and were married to smokers, and > those who grew up with smokers. > > The results are consistent with their being no additional risk for a person > living or working with a smoker and could be consistent with passive smoke > having a protective effect against lung cancer. The summary, seen by The > Telegraph, also states: "There was no association between lung cancer risk > and ETS exposure during childhood." > > A spokesman for Action on Smoking and Health said the findings "seem rather > surprising given the evidence from other major reviews on the subject which > have shown a clear association between passive smoking and a number of > diseases." Roy Castle, the jazz musician and television presenter who died > from lung cancer in 1994, claimed that he contracted the disease from years > of inhaling smoke while performing in pubs and clubs. > > A report published in the British Medical Journal last October was hailed by > the anti-tobacco lobby as definitive proof when it claimed that non-smokers > living with smokers had a 25 per cent risk of developing lung cancer. But > yesterday, Dr Chris Proctor, head of science for BAT Industries, the tobacco > group, said the findings had to be taken seriously. "If this study cannot > find any statistically valid risk you have to ask if there can be any risk > at all. > > "It confirms what we and many other scientists have long believed, that > while smoking in public may be annoying to some non-smokers, the science > does not show that being around a smoker is a lung-cancer risk." The WHO > study results come at a time when the British Government has made clear its > intention to crack down on smoking in thousands of public places, including > bars and restaurants. > > The Government's own Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health is also > expected to report shortly - possibly in time for this Wednesday's National > No Smoking day - on the hazards of passive smoking. > 0151484354027&rtmo=asxs3JpL&atmo=kkkkkkVu&pg=/et/98/3/8/wtob08.html > > ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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