longbough, my original comment was "While you could make a case that incidental second hand smoke is not harmful enough to justify the increased public regulations we've seen in recent years, to say it's not a health hazard to anyone makes you a crackpot in my book."
You seem to be making the former case, which is reasonable. Crichton is making the latter. That's why he's a crackpot.
Whatever flaws existed in the EPA report (and that is debatable), it is still ridiculous to claim that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone. Even Philip Morris doesn't make that claim anymore.
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