quoted 3 lines Many cities in the US are cracking down on public indoor smoking, because> Many cities in the US are cracking down on public indoor smoking, because
> of lawsuits from second-hand smoke. Lawyers are making BILLIONS off
> tobacco lawsuits.
As I was just reading the article before this post, a few US smokers might be
interested in hearing that a North Carolina judge recently ruled that the 1993
EPA report on which most of the second hand smoke litigation is based was
seriously flawed.
He declared that the EPA's finding was based on insufficiently rigorous
statistical tests and was therefore invalid.
The agency, he wrote, "disregarded information and made findings based
on selective information ...; deviated from its risk assessment
guidelines; failed to disclose important [opposing] findings and
reasoning; and left significant questions without answers.
Sorry for the off-topic post but at least it's on-thread. :)
Latr Daze,
The Dave
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