Junk Tobacco Science: Tar Heel Edition
As always, I commend Chris Snowdon’s blog, Velvet Glove, Iron Fist to you as among the very best places for common sense on tobacco issues. His latest post offers a pleasing, if sadly pointless, demolition of a North Carolina study claiming that a ban on smoking in bars caused a 21% fall in the number of heart attacks in the Tar Heel state. Poppycock but the sort of tripe that’s accepted by press and politicians alike. As Chris explains: Even if we assume that secondhand smoke does cause heart attacks, smoking bans have so little effect on so few non-smokers (and have no effect at all on the smokers, unless