Asthma incidence in under 15-year-olds has increased from 5.8 per 10,000 in 1970 to 35.8 per 10,000 in 1997. (These are hospital discharge figures, not initial diagnoses.) During the same period, smoking rates dropped from 40% to 24% and according to the CDC, exposure of children to ETS decreased 75%. (The National Asthma Campaign, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Jim Pirkle MD, PhD, CDC’s Environmental Laboratory)
IF TRUTH IS ON THEIR SIDE, WHY DO THEY LIE?
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Hahaha, I’m hardly surprised to see there’s a correlation with a declining smoking rate, to an increasing asthma rate! You might as well have made a similar chart for the correlation being a declining national smoking rate, and an increasing nationwide obesity rate.
You seem to have a doubtor. I’m not one of them. I found the same graph and others and you didn’t make them.
Since everyone over 30 has been raised around SHS/ETS,and SHS/ETS IS SUPPOSED TO BE SO DEADLY, why are Baby Boomers the longest living of all generations? Why, since smoking has dropped from 54% to 24%, are all the diseases supposedly caused by smoking, on the rise every year? California has the oldest smoking ban and their Asthma rate is 16% and Kentucky has only a 6% rate of Asthma with the highest rate of Smoking? Why do Anti’s still say SHS/ETS KILLS, when the EPA Report they base their statements on was found to be a FRAUD by Federal Judge Osteen and two Congressional Committees?
Why, did the longest/largest studies by the ACS and the WHO find SHS/ETS had no connection to Cancer or Heart Disease? Why are there more than 250 other studies with the same findings?
Could it be because Profit is more important to them than Health?
Clearly SHS/ETS is not the Health threat they make it out to be.
You are right of course Virgil. I chose to ignore Allan’s post as ridiculous, now of course if tobacco control wants to make the claim that smoking causes obesity I will be glad to put up the chart to prove them wrong.