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- <text id=92TT1729>
- <title>
- Aug. 03, 1992: Pardon My Carcinogen
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 03, 1992 AIDS: Losing the Battle
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 28
- SOCIETY
- Pardon My Carcinogen
- </hdr><body>
- <p>Secondhand tobacco smoke, an EPA board confirms, can cause cancer
- </p>
- <p> The fact that smoking causes lung cancer is so well
- established that only the tobacco companies still claim to have
- doubts. Now an Environmental Protection Agency review board,
- acting on a draft report produced within the agency, says
- nonsmokers are in danger as well. "Environmental tobacco smoke"--better known as secondhand smoke--inhaled by those who
- associate with smokers leads to about 3,000 cases of lung cancer
- a year in the U.S. and 300,000 cases of respiratory disease.
- Conclusion: secondhand smoke should be classified as a major
- carcinogen, which could lead to even stronger restrictions on
- smoking in public.
- </p>
- <p> The tobacco industry, predictably, attacked the report,
- arguing that it unfairly took tobacco's effects on those who
- smoke and extrapolated to those who don't. The authors counter
- that the link is valid, but said they would bolster their
- arguments in the final report, due within a few months, as
- requested by the board.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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