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1. "3,000 people a year die from lung cancer caused by second hand smoke." I would LOVE to see the evidence for this.
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This is the EPA study that took the accepted methodology for determining the number of deaths per year from active smoking, and applying that exact same methodology for determining the number of deaths per year from passive smoking.
So if you accept the fact that active smoking causes x number of deaths per year from lung cancer, you should also accept that passive smoking causes y(less than x) number of deaths per year from lung cancer.
The two results use exactly the same methodology, so it is logically inconsistent to accept one and attack the other.