Longbough, like I've pointed out with Crichton above you yourself have cherry picked evidence and seek to limit the discussion of secondhand smoke to only being a problem as a carcinogen or a smelly nuisance. What about all the other negative health impacts? Are they all the results of faulty studies?
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Breathing secondhand smoke can be harmful to children's health including asthma, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), bronchitis and pneumonia and ear infections. Children's exposure to secondhand smoke is responsible for: (1) increases in the number of asthma attacks and severity of symptoms in 200,000 to 1 million children with asthma; (2) between 150,000 and 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections (for children under 18 months of age); and, (3) respiratory tract infections resulting in 7,500 to 15,000 hospitalizations each year.
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http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/
Did you forget to disclose your position at a cigarette manufacturer or something? There isn't even mention of secondhand smoke as a cancer causing agent on the EPA page above.