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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (14859)	1/5/1998 5:30:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<Secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of preventable death in this country, killing 53,000 nonsmokers in the U.S. each year. For every eight smokers the tobacco industry kills, they take one nonsmoker with them. (Glantz, S.A. & Parmley, W. AHA Circulation, 1991: 83:1-12; and, Taylor, A., Johnson, D. & Kazemi, H. AHA Circulation, 1992: 699-702)> Holly, I keep hearing smokers here questioning the validity of statistics regarding second-hand smoke, but I would like to hear some actual statistics that refute the ones above, hopefully in a logical presentation. I guess it is very difficult for non-smokers to understand why there is such a ferocious debate about this, since the right to breathe is so basic.