From The Dave Sent Thu, Jul 23rd 1998, 00:49
From The Dave Sent Thu, Jul 23rd 1998, 00:49
> Many cities in the US are cracking down on public indoor smoking, because > of lawsuits from second-hand smoke. Lawyers are making BILLIONS off > tobacco lawsuits. As I was just reading the article before this post, a few US smokers might be interested in hearing that a North Carolina judge recently ruled that the 1993 EPA report on which most of the second hand smoke litigation is based was seriously flawed. He declared that the EPA's finding was based on insufficiently rigorous statistical tests and was therefore invalid. The agency, he wrote, "disregarded information and made findings based on selective information ...; deviated from its risk assessment guidelines; failed to disclose important [opposing] findings and reasoning; and left significant questions without answers. Sorry for the off-topic post but at least it's on-thread. :) Latr Daze, The Dave --- Dave Bloom xxx_xxxx@xxx.xxx Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.