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ted genuine medical science from progressing it has set back science and prevented research that could have improved health any science that concludes with some benefit from smoking or contradicts the consensus in some way invariably comes with the rider but smoking is bad we don t condone smoking etc failure to add this rider would put the scientist s career on the line even their personal integrity and credibility is likely to be smeared eg prof enstrom prof siegel it is fairly clear that while tobacco control purports to be at war with tobacco companies and public ill health the evidence suggests otherwise this all adds up to the fact that today we can no longer implicitly trust scientific studies relating to smoking and health tobacco control originally drew our attention to this problem of untrustworthy science many years ago they have long claimed that their opponent s science is fraudulent the tobacco industry while claiming theirs to be irreproachable but once again the evidence suggests otherwise it is therefore imperative that we weigh the scientific evidence for and against with common sense using rational and logical thought no specialist skills are required to identify many of the inherent contradictions and implications in anti smoker rhetoric and science or comparison with real life situations smoking prevalence over time is an important factor when evaluating the alleged effects of smoking and health particularly when viewing the rhetoric science from a common sense rational logical perspective smoking prevalence has been reducing in the western world for many years the cruk graph below shows gb male cigarette smoking had reduced 1948 2007 from 65 to just over 20 a two thirds reduction female smoking that peaked at 45 in 1966 had reduced to 20 by 2007 a reduction of over 50 logic tells us that relative passive smoking exposure must have reduced substantially over the same period common sense tells us that so called smoke related illness should also have reduced too and the graph suggests just that but there is more to it than this graph would have us believe as discussed later in this document smoking trends source cancer research uk note that this graph relates to manufactured cigarette smoking only 82 of males smoked some form of tobacco in 1948 when smoking surveys began cruk the graph suggests that smoking was reducing even before 1948 probably as a result of hitler s earlier anti smoker campaign in common with the best snake oil salesmen anti smokers list an almost endless number of illnesses allegedly caused by primary and passive smoke on the assumption that at least one of them should resound with most people at some point relating to some real life situation and also knowing that if one is exposed as harmless then there are several others left to fall back upon mr hume repeats a few of these as most common illnesses known to afflict children due to passive smoke exposure lower respiratory infections wheezing middle ear disease asthma modest impairment of lung function bacterial meningitis and sudden infant death let us briefly examine some of these firstly for those where the operative words are highlighted in bold tobacco smoke does not contain any bacteria or virus it is sterile but it may well be possible to identify some correlation with smoking if other factors are not fully taken into account eg social class diet etc in the 1980 s there was a strong correlation between the increase in sales of vhs video recorders and the rise of hiv aids but to conclude that one causes the other is clearly absurd take meningitis meningococcal disease contact with smokers is associated with increased risk of md in adolescents this is more likely to be due to higher carriage rates in smokers than to exposure to smoke in epidemiological studies that assess risk from passive smoking exposure to smoke should be differentiated where possible from contact with smokers coen et al 2005 so the truth is not that exposure to second hand smoke causes meningitis in children unsurprisingly it is contact with people who are carrying the meningitis bacteria that increases the probability of contracting meningitis middle ear disease otitis media is simply an infection or inflammation that can be caused by viruses or bacteria over the past 2 decades the number of clinical visits for otitis media has increased dramatically in the united states from 9 9 million in 1975 to 24 5 million in 1990 pediatrics aapublications during the same period smoking reduced substantially and therefore children were less exposed to ets less smoke but more ear infections sudden infant death syndrome sids the following is a strongly worded letter that the infant death syndrome alliance sent to john banzhaf of ash usa criticizing his use of misleading data and terminology when linking sudden infant death syndrome to parental smoking the sensational heading for one of your recent internet reports 07 30 smoking parents are killing their infants has gone too far the fact is researchers still do not know what causes sids insensitive generalisations about sids broadcast through print or the electronic media serve only to perpetuate the public s misconceptions your literature states that smoking kills more than 2 000 infants each year from sids any published figures are sheer speculation or guesses not grounded in actual experimentation we respectfully request that you adjust your message as far as sids is concerned while we support your cause we can not do so at the expense of the tens of thousands of families we represent thank you for your consideration of our concerns a copy of our latest information brochure is enclosed we welcome your reply banzhaf did not reply and ash continued to quote the statistic from velvet glove iron fist common sense the years between 1970 and 1988 when cot deaths shot up by 500 per cent coincided with the very time when the number of adults who smoked in britain was falling most sharply from 45 to 30 per cent less smoke but more sids lung function nitric oxide found in tobacco smoke can help treat pneumonia improve lung efficiency in patients suffering from adult respiratory distress syndrome ards and has proven efficacy in treating blue babies asthma over the last twenty years or so child asthma has increased manifold in most western countries where smoking and shs exposure has been reducing in usa asthma is the leading cause of chronic illness in children it affects as many as 10 12 of children in the u s and for unknown reasons is steadily increasing medicine net 2010 here too there is a wide margin between what is claimed by tobacco control sources and reality many people of a certain age will remember that child asthma was rare in their childhood while people smoked everywhere but i post a few studies relating to asthma that highlight the mismatch scientifically from different perspectives brussleton health study west australia the prevalence of doctor diagnosed asthma dda was around 6 from 1966 to 1975 8 in 1981 and rose to 19 in 2005 2007 james et al 2009 passive smoking lowers risk of asthma in a multivariate analysis children of mothers who smoked at least 15 cigarettes a day tended to have lower odds for suffering from allergic rhino conjunctivitis allergic asthma atopic eczema and food allergy compared to children of mothers who had never smoked ors 0 6 0 7 children of fathers who had smoked at least 15 cigarettes a day had a similar tendency ors 0 7 0 9 conclusions this study demonstrates an association between current exposure to tobacco smoke and a low risk for atopic disorders in smokers themselves and a similar tendency in their children hjern et al 2001 less asthma in countries with highest male smoking rates the prevalence of atopic symptoms in6 7 and 13 14 year old children was assessed in 91 centres from 38 countries and 155 centres from 56 countries respectively in the international study of asthma and allergy in childhood isaac for the countries that are included in this analysis countries that have high adult male smoking rates have a lower risk of asthma andrhinitis symptoms in children mitchell et al 2001 hygiene hypothesis we studied the association between early life conditions and asthma in adolescence results are consistent with the hygiene hypothesis according to which early exposure to infections provides protection against asthma no association was found between asthma and maternal smoking during pregnancy or between asthma and overall parental smoking rosângela da costa lima et al 2003 hard clinical science using brown rats this paper not only concludes that nicotine and hence active and passive smoking actually leads to less incidence of asthma and atopy but gives you the etiology too the results unequivocally show that even after multiple allergen sensitizations nicotine dramatically suppresses inflammatory allergic parameters in the lung mishra et al 2008 it was not so many years ago that doctors would recommend that patients take up smoking to alleviate lung and other respiratory problems such as asthma given the evidence that is gradually being discovered now it would seem to have been good advice so what changed were doctors incompetent then or was it anti smoker junk science that convinced them they were wrong against their better judgement or maybe a fear of losing their jobs if they deviated from the anti smoker consensus the window dressing the level of ets exposure in cars is irrelevant given the evidence that it is effectively harmless even beneficial to children but does it really take a tobacco control scientific study to show how much ets is raised or not inside a car do your own test while driving switch off climate control etc light a cigarette then open one window by one inch preferably next to the smoker and watch how quickly the smoke is drawn out it takes seconds this demonstrates a basic law of physics relating to differing air pressures of course it is possible to even out the internal external pressures by opening more windows or too wide which can negate the effect to a certain extent parts of australia and canada have done it so why don t we follow the leaders i recall as a child that my mother would chide me whenever i used this argument to try and excuse a naughty act but johnny did it too mum to which she would reply would you jump in the lake and drown yourself if johnny did we are then treated to a list of expert supporters and all the experts agree ie the inevitable appeal to authority so common in anti smoker diatribe today this merely reminds me of the belief that the earth was the centre of the universe over 300 years ago but mr galileo all the experts disagree with you and they are the voice of god they know what they are talking about the evidence is irrefutable the earth is the center of the universe now shut up or we will have you tried by the inquisition in fact there are plenty of experts and scientists who disagree with the anti smoker consensus these and more are listed here http tctactics org index php critical_scientists professor philippe even recently retired world renowned pulmonologist and president of the prestigious necker research institute for the last decade in le parisien may 2010 he comments on passive smoking studies clearly the harm of passive smoking is either nonexistent or it is extremely low on the 2002 iarc report on passive smoking it was creating a fear that is based on nothing i do not think it is good to legislate on a lie when asked why he was speaking out now even replied 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 professor romano grieshaber the unwavering professor at the end the global war on tobacco of the who will fail the question is not whether but only when it will be doomed to failure not only because of their drift into bottomless pseudo science but also because of their self righteous claim to absoluteness gabriela segura md nicotine the zombie antidote the smartest people on earth smoke and it is a veritable sign of the times that smoking is so highly discouraged in this modern zombie culture dr segura also advances a very plausible reason as to why the who etc would want to blame almost all public ill health on smoking and other personal lifestyle choices is it ok to lie for a good cause many still believe the increasingly frantic hyperbole that smoking is a genocidal killer and therefore any means to prevent smoking is worthwhile who cares if bad science is being used to misrepresent the dangers of ets who cares if children are being indoctrinated and exploited they will benefit at the end of the day won t they who cares if a few filthy smokers are de normalized and de humanized we all know it is all for their own good isn t it many lives will be saved so it is all worthwhile isn t it the more intellectually alert will already have identified an emerging trend that comes with hindsight the proof of the pudding is in the eating while smoking has been declining the illnesses allegedly attributed to passive smoking that should also be declining are in fact increasing in many cases the theoretical future reductions in so called smoke related illness that would accrue with the success of the anti smoker agenda predicted by c20th anti smoker science have not materialised this is also true in relation to primary smoking britain is winning the war on cancer but the number of people found to have the disease has actually risen how does tobacco control admit that despite the reduction in smoking so called smoke related disease continues to increase without giving the game away well they emphasize the results of better treatment and without expressly stating so infer that it is related to the reduction in smoking it is spin or smoke and mirrors rhetoric our risk of dying from the disease has fallen said catherine thomson of cancer research uk the reduction in smoking has helped hugely for many cancers less smoking more cancers quitting smoking does not cure cancer nor does it appear to prevent it either a few more relevant facts and figures relating to primary smoking that should be weighed against the fact that smoking prevalence has been reducing for many decades almost all cancers are increasing in the western world england in 1971 there were 143 763 new cases of cancer this figure had almost doubled by 2006 with 243 144 new cases that year uk govt stats see appendix 1 below macmillan cancer support uk says the number ofover 65s who have received a cancer diagnosis will go up from 1 3 million in 2010 to 4 1 million in 2040 usa new lung and bronchus cancers increased by 31 between 2000 and 2008 almost a third increase in just 8 years new cases 2000 164 100 2008 215 020 american cancer society 2010 compare appendix 2 and 3 below non smokers account for 80 ...