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Nice Smoke Ban Covers Up Crimes of The Most Toxic Industries.

by Watchdog | 01.05.2009

Barely a day goes by that we do not hear that "smoking" causes diseases that are oddly identical to diseases caused by industrial chemicals. Only in extraordinary cases do we hear that industrial toxins and carcinogens even exist.
This article, and the "study", work to blame heart attacks on smoke from an unpatented public domain natural plant...one that is conveniently "sinful". God (or Mother Nature) strikes again.

An Inquirer article tried to suggest that smoke bans cut heart attacks. But the item needs a touch of care in the reading.

"Heart Hospitalizations fall after a city's smoking ban." Jan 1 09

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/daily/20090101_Heart_hospitalizati\
ons_fall_after_a_city_s_smoking_ban.html

It would be funny...if so many didn't fall for this stuff, or die from the consequences of inaction.

The Associated Press version of this PR scam notes at the end of the article that...