[Superman]

Creature,
I don't doubt that second-hand smoke is bad, I just doubt that researchers have isolated its effects. The same kids that endure second hand smoke, likely also live in environments that include other differences from the group of kids who are not exposed to second hand smoke. The caricature would be kids whose dads are doctors, married, three squares a day, love and tenderness, versus kids whose dads are drunken leaches who beat the kids, don't provide them lunch money, etc. 'Course, that's the caricature. At any rate, without isolating the SS smoke effect, you've got multicollinearity going on. Statistics do not in fact lie. Researchers exaggerate, though.

Also, researchers pretending to draw these conclusions seem to want us to accept the notion that SS smoke victims have virtually the same health effect as smokers.

Again, SS smoke is bad for kids and every other creature. More interesting to me is the phenomenon of adults exposing children to smoke. What's up with that?

Lendaddy, howz your sense of smell? Can you tell the difference between a clean towel and one that's been used once? Dress shirt? Does everyone in your office practice effective personal hygiene?