http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/11/20/tobacco-company-seeks-to-close-record-in-pulaski-lawsuit Comments On: Tobacco company seeks to close record in Pulaski lawsuit by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sun, 19 May 2013 19:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
He's no scientist--he's a tobacco farmer from Kentucky.

As for this Philippe Even screed, posted against copyright:

If you Google Scholar this "P Even," there is no sign he has ever authored anything to do with secondhand smoke.

Just another smoking French administrator.

Check out this part:

"Why not speak up earlier?

"As a civil servant, dean of the largest medical faculty in France, I was held to confidentiality. If I had deviated from official positions, I would have had to pay the consequences. Today, I am a free man."

Translation: "I was too much of a sniveling, lying coward to tell the truth then, but I'm telling the truth now. Honest. Believe me. Really."

Sure I believe him. Just like I believe full-time campaigning nut-jobs like Davidson.
Posted by genebbbbbb]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:59:52 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Citizen1]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:53:59 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by John Davidson]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:08:03 -0600 Arkansas Times World-renowned pulmonologist, president of the prestigious Research Institute Necker for the last decade, Professor Philippe Even, now retired, tells us that he’s convinced of the absence of harm from passive smoking. A shocking interview.

What do the studies on passive smoking tell us?

PHILIPPE EVEN. There are about a hundred studies on the issue. First surprise: 40% of them claim a total absence of harmful effects of passive smoking on health. The remaining 60% estimate that the cancer risk is multiplied by 0.02 for the most optimistic and by 0.15 for the more pessimistic … compared to a risk multiplied by 10 or 20 for active smoking! It is therefore negligible. Clearly, the harm is either nonexistent, or it is extremely low.

It is an indisputable scientific fact. Anti-tobacco associations report 3 000-6 000 deaths per year in France ...

I am curious to know their sources. No study has ever produced such a result.

Many experts argue that passive smoking is also responsible for cardiovascular disease and other asthma attacks. Not you?

They don’t base it on any solid scientific evidence. Take the case of cardiovascular diseases: the four main causes are obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes. To determine whether passive smoking is an aggravating factor, there should be a study on people who have none of these four symptoms. But this was never done. Regarding chronic bronchitis, although the role of active smoking is undeniable, that of passive smoking is yet to be proven. For asthma, it is indeed a contributing factor ... but not greater than pollen!

The purpose of the ban on smoking in public places, however, was to protect non-smokers. It was thus based on nothing?

Absolutely nothing! The psychosis began with the publication of a report by the IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer, which depends on the WHO (Editor's note: World Health Organization). The report released in 2002 says it is now proven that passive smoking carries serious health risks, but without showing the evidence. Where are the data? What was the methodology? It's everything but a scientific approach. It was creating fear that is not based on anything.

Why would anti-tobacco organizations wave a threat that does not exist?
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The anti-smoking campaigns and higher cigarette prices having failed, they had to find a new way to lower the number of smokers. By waving the threat of passive smoking, they found a tool that really works: social pressure. In good faith, non-smokers felt in danger and started to stand up against smokers. As a result, passive smoking has become a public health problem, paving the way for the Evin Law and the decree banning smoking in public places. The cause may be good, but I do not think it is good to legislate on a lie. And the worst part is that it does not work: since the entry into force of the decree, cigarette sales are rising again.

Why not speak up earlier?

As a civil servant, dean of the largest medical faculty in France, I was held to confidentiality. If I had deviated from official positions, I would have had to pay the consequences. Today, I am a free man.

Le Parisien
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Posted by John Davidson]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:07:23 -0600 Arkansas Times
FDA APPROVED ADDITIVES! It makes rough tasting tobacco mellow to smoke..........and these fools thinks thats bad!lmao
Posted by John Davidson]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:07:16 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:46:10 -0600 Arkansas Times
They say to "protect trade secrets" when what they really mean is that if people found out what we are really putting in the cigs or ground water they would throw us under the jail.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:07:42 -0600 Arkansas Times