Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site spanky.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!ka From: ka@spanky.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Smoking . . . (Slow Motion Suicide) Message-ID: <365@spanky.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jun-83 15:50:44 EDT Article-I.D.: spanky.365 Posted: Fri Jun 10 15:50:44 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jun-83 23:18:59 EDT References: flairvax.130 <5349@unc.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, N. J. Lines: 21 Well, I'm glad you at least got some amusement out of it, since you seem to have missed its content. The point is that the link between public smoking and danger to healthy people nearby is currently only tenuously proven. tim@unc.UUCP I also missed the point of your previous article, since it doesn't contain a single reference to the health of bystanders (although it does describe smoking as a dangerous habit without saying to whom.) Since "tenuously proven" is a contradiction in terms, I probably still don't get it. But let's assume that you mean that the fact that smoking damages the health of bystanders has not been proven. Actually, I'm not prepared to argue this point in detail, having neither the information nor the medical expertise to evaluate the studies that have been done in this area. But I suspect the same is true of you. You can't dismiss the research in this area with- out giving some indication of what is wrong with it. Kenneth Almquist