tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com — A study published online ahead of print in the journal Pediatrics warns of the dangers, especially to children, of "thirdhand" tobacco smoke -- residual smoke which can cause exposure long after a smoker has stopped smoking. The study describes thirdhand smoke as "persistently high levels of ...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run —
... On his tobacco policy blog, anti-smoking activist Michael Siegel notes that the Pediatrics article "cites just a single study to support its contention that low levels of tobacco smoke exposure are associated with health harm." That study found an association between low levels of cotinine (a nicotine metabolite) in children's blood and their scores on cognitive tests. Siegel, a public health professor who supports smoking bans but believes their advocates routinely exaggerate the hazards of secondhand smoke, details the study's weaknesses, ...
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Overlawyered —
“You’ve got to be alive to be inconvenienced”: some thoughts on the withdrawal of an emergency battlefield therapy [GruntDoc]
Yes, let’s all have a nice scare over “third-hand” tobacco smoke, or actually let’s not [Sullum, Siegel, Greenfield] And you knew they were coming: “smokeasies” [Tuccille, Examiner]
“We are fully cooperating with the government in its investigations” (Hey, I never said “we” included my client) [WSJ Law Blog on Madoff case] ...
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