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Thread #103720   Message #2118145
Posted By: Grab
03-Aug-07 - 06:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: Smoking ban closing pubs, it's started!
Subject: RE: BS: Smoking ban closing pubs, it's started!
Thanks for Googling for me. I'd rather assumed that stating the bleedin' obvious (that Scotland and Ireland continue to be favourite centres for drinking in spite of bans there) would be enough. ;-)

Dave Hit: nobody can give me three names of individuals killed by passive smoking.

It's easy to name one - Roy Castle. And at the risk of relying too much on Wikipedia, this page has links/quotes for a number of studies, including an AMA study suggesting 35-40,000 deaths per year from passive smoking in the US in the early 80s, and 3-5,000 deaths per year in France. Sorry, I've not got time right now to dig out the actual studies myself.

Graham.