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This explains why, despite what we're so often told, passive smoke health studies keep coming up negative unless twisted into something resembling the Gordian knot.

None of which matters to the activists, to whom any means justifies the end. Having made all the progress they can with "Your smoking will kill you," they changed tack to "Your smoking will kill others." (Or at least give them herpes.) Former Surgeon General David Satcher essentially admitted as much at a Washington, D.C. hearing when he said a ban on workplace smoking would "be effective in creating a new social norm that discourages people from smoking."

Smoking -- real smoking -- is both vile and deadly. I fully sympathize with those who want to see it go the way of the mastodon. But they lose me when they slip on the jackboots and fudge the science.

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