Well, well, well. The truth comes out...FINALLY!!!

Was listening to the Stacey Taylor Show on KLSD AM, San Diego, this morn. The subject of smoking came up and all the laws against it. So Stacey tells the story of 20 years ago when he interviewed the US Surgeon General, Everett Coop, on his show. And of course Coop was raving and ranting about the dangers of smoking...until they stepped outside during a break.

Coop then asked Stacey to never reveal what he was about to tell him, and Stacey promised not to...until now.

Coop told Stacey that 98% of lung cancers were genetic, and not from smoking at all.

So naturally Stacey asked him why he was making such a big deal out of it, and Coop replied, "Because they told me to."

Now comes the latest smoking news:

Passive smoking doesn't cause cancer

Passive smoking doesn't cause cancer - official By Victoria Macdonald, Health Correspondent THE world's leading health organisation has withheld from publication a study which shows that not only might there be no link between passive smoking and lung cancer but that it could even have a protective effect. The astounding results are set to throw wide open the debate on passive smoking health risks. The World Health Organisation, which commissioned the 12-centre, seven-country European study has failed to make the findings public, and has instead produced only a summary of the results in an internal report. Despite repeated approaches, nobody at the WHO headquarters in Geneva would comment on the findings last week. At its International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, which coordinated the study, a spokesman would say only that the full report had been submitted to a science journal and no publication date had been set. The findings are certain to be an embarrassment to the WHO, which has spent years and vast sums on anti-smoking and anti-tobacco campaigns. The study is one of the largest ever to look at the link between passive smoking - or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) - and lung cancer, and had been eagerly awaited by medical experts and campaigning groups. Yet the scientists have found that there was no statistical evidence that passive smoking caused lung cancer. The research compared 650 lung cancer patients with 1,542 healthy people. It looked at people who were married to smokers, worked with smokers, both worked and were married to smokers, and those who grew up with smokers.

http://www.forces.org/articles/files/passive1.htm

NOW they tell us!

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