Is secondary smoke actually a
health threat?
To put it simply, in any real sense of the word “threat,” the answer is no.
“How can that be?” you might ask…. “How can everything on TV be wrong?”
The answer is simple, sad, and shouldn’t really be that unexpected: money.
Over the last thirty years the Antismoking Lobby has grown from a small group of extremists to an industry controlling the purse strings of over 800 million dollars a year.
Those purse strings buy a lot of media savvy and studies designed to please the purse string controllers. Think about it: if you want a grant from the “Center For Tobacco Free Kids” would you design a study showing secondary smoke as fairly harmless or one portraying it as deadlier than the Bubonic Plague?
That money also buys politicians with a plus factor: It’s not just purse strings the Smoking Prohibitionists can pluck at election time… it’s heart strings too. Again, think about it: would you rather be pictured on the evening news as a "Big Tobacco Politician" or as a “Friend of Saving the Children’s Lungs” ?
Fifty years ago Big Tobacco had the power to control the studies and the media coverage. Today “Big Antismoking” is the major player in the field.
Go to http://cantiloper.tripod.com and read about the lies told to, accepted by, and then rebroadcast by the media. Then go read some of the studies themselves. You’ll be surprised.