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Some representatives of so-called "smokers' rights" organizations have been mischaracterizing the findings of our recently published study of outdoor tobacco smoke performed at Stanford University. Therefore, I have written this memorandum to clarify the findings of our research with respect to exposures occurring on outdoor dining patios.
--Neil Klepeis
Note: This memo can be downloaded in PDF format using the link below.
From a scientific standpoint, the story of exposure to secondhand smoke has been purposely muddled by pro-smoking advocates. These pro-smoking critics try to poke holes in the previous epidemiological research studies linking smoke exposure to long-term adverse health effects, such as cancer and heart disease.
What the pro-smoking critics seem to forget is that the health effects of most of the pollutants that make up secondhand smoke – such as fine particles, carbon monoxide, benzene, PAHs – already are well-known and documented in environmental science.
