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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Re: what is it about smoking
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Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 05:27:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 26 05:27:11 1983
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Sarah,
	The last time I checked, there were over 700 articles on
smoking at the Hospital for Sick Children Library. There are probably
more now. If you lob one study at me, I can probably lob one back
at you, but this will take a lot of time and I have an awful lot
of other things to do.

	If you do not admit that there is disagreement among the
authorities on this issue then you have only seen one side of the story.
If you do admit there is disagreement, then you still have to prove to 
me why your claims that "smoking is harmful to passive smokers" are
better than someone else' claims that "smoking is not harmful to
passive smokers". Just producing lots of studies is not good enough,
you must state why the experiemtal method that produced these studies
is not in error, and what was wrong with the method of those who
proved that smoking was harmless to the passive smoker.

laura creighton
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