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Subject: Re: Smoking . . . (Slow Motion Suicide)
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Date: Fri, 10-Jun-83 15:50:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 10 15:50:44 1983
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	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