Defending the smoker's rights. Everyone should choose what is better: to smoke or not.
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Addendum
In mid-October, tobacco stocks took a hit on the New York Stock exchange, on the announcement that a team of researchers had found the exact mechanism by which smoking "causes lung cancer". Tobacco industry executives were even reported, by the Wall Street...
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Summation
In this book, I have shown that the case for a smoking/lung cancer connection is by no means proven. Certainly, there is no case whatever for a connection between ETS (second hand smoke) and any disease, nor is there are any case for a connection between...
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Smoking and Emphysema
On July 13, 1994, an obituary in the Washington Post reported the death, at age 60, of Richard Joshua Reynolds, III, an heir to the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company. The headline and an accompanying photograph showed the deceased smoking a...
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Smoking and Heart Attacks
For many years, anti-smoking activists have insisted that smoking "causes" heart attacks. In truth, there is no scientific evidence to support such a claim. As early as the 1950's government scientists began conducting studies in Framingham, MA., to assess...
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Is Nicotine Addictive?
Much of the rhetoric of the anti-smoking movement seeks to demonize tobacco smokers as "nicotine addicts". In the past, of course, the term "addict" has been generally applied only to mind-altering drugs, e.g., heroin and cocaine. Even alcohol, which...
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Is there No Risk?
So far, I have argued that the case that smoking causes lung cancer has not been proven. The reader may ask, "Well, if smoking doesn't cause lung cancer, just what does?". Recent studies suggest that the answer lies in the genes of those individuals who...
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Smoking Animals
Remember the smoking beagles? Movietone News, the old newsreel company, featured a piece on these cute little dogs, shot some time in the 1950's or 60's. It's sometimes re-run on late night TV, even today. Actually, the experiment was rather cruel (although...
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Smoking Myths and the Role of Detection Bias
A common myth about smoking assert that the lungs of smokers become brown or even black from years of accumulation of tars and goo. Not true, according to Wray Kephart. Mr. Kephart presently works as an engineer but he previously worked in a hospital,...
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The Surgeon General's Reports
At this point, the reader will likely ask, "But what about the Surgeon General's Reports? Don't they prove that smoking causes lung cancer?". Actually, they don't. It's not easy to get copies of these Reports. When I started my research, I combed the...
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The Propaganda Machine
Beginning in the early 1950's, the American Cancer Society started to wage war against smoking. Later, the government took up the cudgel and, today, there is a government agency, the Office of Smoking and Health, dedicated to stamping out smoking. Unfortunately,...
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In mid-October, tobacco stocks took a hit on the New York Stock exchange, on the announcement that a team of researchers had found the exact mechanism by which smoking "causes lung cancer". Tobacco industry executives were even reported, by the Wall Street...
In this book, I have shown that the case for a smoking/lung cancer connection is by no means proven. Certainly, there is no case whatever for a connection between ETS (second hand smoke) and any disease, nor is there are any case for a connection between...
On July 13, 1994, an obituary in the Washington Post reported the death, at age 60, of Richard Joshua Reynolds, III, an heir to the founder of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company. The headline and an accompanying photograph showed the deceased smoking a...
For many years, anti-smoking activists have insisted that smoking "causes" heart attacks. In truth, there is no scientific evidence to support such a claim. As early as the 1950's government scientists began conducting studies in Framingham, MA., to assess...
Much of the rhetoric of the anti-smoking movement seeks to demonize tobacco smokers as "nicotine addicts". In the past, of course, the term "addict" has been generally applied only to mind-altering drugs, e.g., heroin and cocaine. Even alcohol, which...
So far, I have argued that the case that smoking causes lung cancer has not been proven. The reader may ask, "Well, if smoking doesn't cause lung cancer, just what does?". Recent studies suggest that the answer lies in the genes of those individuals who...
Remember the smoking beagles? Movietone News, the old newsreel company, featured a piece on these cute little dogs, shot some time in the 1950's or 60's. It's sometimes re-run on late night TV, even today. Actually, the experiment was rather cruel (although...
A common myth about smoking assert that the lungs of smokers become brown or even black from years of accumulation of tars and goo. Not true, according to Wray Kephart. Mr. Kephart presently works as an engineer but he previously worked in a hospital,...
At this point, the reader will likely ask, "But what about the Surgeon General's Reports? Don't they prove that smoking causes lung cancer?". Actually, they don't. It's not easy to get copies of these Reports. When I started my research, I combed the...
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