Next time you read or hear an anti-tobacco dogmatist claim that ‘’science’’ has proven that smoking bans reduce heart attacks, please do real science a favor and set the messenger of such ‘’good news’’ straight by sending them the present page that tells the true story: Anti-tobacco activists have absolutely no regard for science or truth when it comes to advancing their agenda.
Dr. Michael Siegel has thoroughly analyzed a series of anti-smoking studies that popped up like mushrooms over the last couple of years in unsuccessful attempts to prove that smoking bans have immediate effects in reducing heart attacks. The conclusions of these studies were extremely important to the anti-tobacco dogmatists because they would have confirmed their allegations that there is no safe level of tobacco smoke and even half an hour of exposure to other people’s smoke can cause a heart attack. Each and every study when looked at closely failed miserably to give anti-smokers this strongly desired weapon. But this doesn’t stop any of them, including the Quebec government’s attorney during the Quebec UTBQ court challenge, to continuously use them as a propaganda tool in an effort to convince politicians, judges and Mr. Q Public that smoking bans are worth their weight in gold and any economic loss or social havoc becomes irrelevant and immaterial compared to the numerous lives saved.
Read Dr. Siegel’s comments about the various studies:
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