Understanding where the word came fromand how its used todayhelps explain why the term continues to appear in conversations, music, movies, and online communities around the world
For example, as Judge Kessler found, over the decades, the tobacco companies crafted and implemented "a broad strategy to undermine and distort the evidence" of secondhand smoke as a health hazard in order "to deceive the public, distort the scientific record, avoid adverse findings by government agencies, and forestall indoor air restrictions." An NCI tobacco control monograph used during the trial, however, showed that exposure of nonsmokers to secondhand smoke is associated with serious health problems, including respiratory and cardiovascular conditions, cancer, and developmental effects in babies
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Also, epidemiological and experimental studies suggest that asthma risk may be influenced by environmentally induced epigenetic changes of genes critical to Th-cell differentiation
However, investing in the tobacco industry carries ethical considerations