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Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in the United States—A Meta-Analysis and Critique

James E. Estrom and Geoffrey C. Kabat

Inhalation Toxicology / Taylor and Francis Group LLC / March 01, 2006

Several major meta-analyses have concluded that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) increases the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) by about ... (read more)

Medical Evidence Helps Hold Off Smoking Bans in St. Louis Region

Bill Hannegan

Budget & Tax News / The Heartland Institute / October 08, 2008

Despite the smoking ban juggernaut that has run over other towns, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen and St. Louis County Council have both declined to impose ... (read more)

St. Louis Bars and Restaurants Try Clearing the Air

Bill Hannegan

Budget & Tax News / The Heartland Institute / October 08, 2008

Many St. Louis bars and restaurants that want to allow smoking but also attract customers concerned about secondhand smoke are installing machines that ... (read more)

Lifetime Cumulative Exposure to Secondhand Smoke and Risk of Myocardial Infarction in Never Smokers

Saverio Stranges, MD, PhD et al.

Archives of Internal Medicine / American Medical Association / October 09, 2006

Background: Although many epidemiologic studies have investigated the association between exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) and risk of coronary heart ... (read more)

Multicenter Case-Control Study of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer in Europe

Summary by John Dale Dunn M.D., J.D.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute / National Cancer Institute / October 07, 1998

Our results indicate no association between childhood exposure to ETS and lung cancer risk. We did find weak evidence of a dose–response relationship ... (read more)

The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Truth about Secondhand Smoke

Jerome Arnett, Jr. M.D.

Paper August 02, 2008

The abuse of scientific integrity and the generation of faulty “scientific” outcomes (through the use of pseudo-science) have led to deception of the American ... (read more)

Scientific Evidence Shows Secondhand Smoke Is No Danger

Jerome Arnett, Jr., M.D.

Environment & Climate News / The Heartland Institute / July 01, 2008

Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is an unpleasant experience for many nonsmokers, and for decades was considered a nuisance. But the idea that it might ... (read more)

Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Related Mortality in a Prospective Study of Californians, 1960-98

James E. Enstrom and Geoffrey C. Kabat

BMJ Journal / BMJ Publishing Groupd, Ltd. / May 17, 2003

Several major reviews have determined that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke increases the relative risk of coronary heart disease, based primarily ... (read more)

Defending Legitimate Epidemiologic Research: Combating Lysenko Pseudoscience

James E Enstrom

Analytic Perspective / BioMedCentral / October 10, 2007

This analysis presents a detailed defense of my epidemiologic research in the May 17, 2003 British Medical Journal that found no significant relationship ... (read more)

Turning Science Into Junk: The Tobacco Industry and Passive Smoking

Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS, and Thomas A. Burke, PhD, MPH

American Journal of Public Health November 01, 2007

The stakes are high in the public policy arena. Public health scientists will continue to be called on to research society’s most vexing issues, and to ... (read more)