Hi!

You and all the other tobcco bashers give me great concern over the quality and effectiveness of higher education in or country. You see, when went through college we were indoctrinaed in the Scientific Methodology. Cause and effect. To establish a "fact" you must be able to replicate the process.

Statistics regarding smoking are questionable. They could as readily be applied to carrots as to ttobacco!

Re: SHS
Who are you trying to kid? Do you know nothing, just partisan bilge? How can someone so ignorant think it's fine to bloviate all over the internet? SHS's harms are _not_ just based on stats, and the "process" has been replicated often.
You can read the 2006 Surgeon General's Report, which assembled the then-current data on SHS (you won't), but briefly:
In 2005, after hearing 6 years of the best Tobacco could muster, Federal Judge Gladys Kessler, found, in a decision recently upheld by the Supreme Court:
"Evidence of the health risks of passive smoking is derived from many sources. It comes from knowledge of the health risks of active smoking, the carcinogenicity and toxicity of the components in mainstream and sidestream smoke, the evidence that nonsmokers absorb the disease-causing components of tobacco smoke, and epidemiological studies that have assessed the association of passive exposure to tobacco smoke with disease outcomes."
You'd "give me great concern over the quality and effectiveness of higher education in or (sic) country," but I doubt you ever went above high school.