The Tulane Hullabaloo , 2009-09-18
Author: Jared Sichel

Summary:

As noted in the Hullabaloo’s Sept. 4, “Smoking Policy Changed,” the University Senate strengthened Tulane’s anti-smoking policy by establishing 14 areas where Tulane will allow its students to smoke tobacco without receiving warnings and citations. . . .


The Environmental Protection Agency classified environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) as a cancerous toxin in 1993. Two years later, a North Carolina judge ruled that the EPA’s report was scientifically invalid and that the EPA cherry picked and even modified statistics.


ETS is still listed as a “Group A Carcinogen” even though there have been zero studies linking cancer with short-term exposure to second-hand smoke. I repeat: There is no consensus as to whether or not short-term exposure to second-hand smoke is harmful. . . .


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