ets exposure, lung cancer - Legacy Tobacco Documents Library

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responses in healthy individuals . While acute ETS exposure may
evoke respiratory responses in a subset of asthmatic individuals,
a psychogenic basis for such responses has yet to be ruled out .
As indicated earlier in this presentation, the issue of
health effects of ETS has been examined by several scientific
groups and has lead to reports . Several of these reports hae
stated that ETS exposure is a health risk, with particular
emphasis placed on risk of lung cancer in the nonsmoker and acu~e
respiratory illness and impaired lung function and growth in
children . The most recent report that has arrived at such
conclusions is the 1992 U .S . Environmental Protection Agency
(EP.A) Report on the Respiratory Health Effects of Passive
Sraoking .
How can one reconcile our conclusions with those arrived a
by the EPA? To be frank, our analysis is more comprehensive,
more thorough, and more balanced than that appearing in the EPA
report . A review of that report will reveal inconsistencies in
and disparities between the data reviewed and the conclusions
implied or stated in the body of the report, as well as those
implied or conveyed to the press•. It is evident from the ways 'n
which data have been manipulated, explained away, or-interprete by the EPA, and the way in which dissenting opinions have been
addressed, that there is in the EPA Report an unclear separatioll
of objective science from political, social or other agendas, o
preconceived notions. is,
It is important that the issue of ETS be viewed in the
context of indoor air pollution in general . One must keep in
mind the fact that a number of less visible indoor air pollutan,`Ls
present a much more significant health hazard than ETS, even
though the latter attracts considerably more attention and
emotion than the former .
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