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Korean History Project
http://koreanhistoryproject.org/index.htm
The Korean History Project went online October 16, 1997, as an
educational effort to research, produce and publish Korean and East
Asian history online, to promote history education and cultural
understanding, and to make a valuable history resource easily
accessible to a worldwide audience.
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Respectful Insolence
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/07/blowing_smoke_over_second_hand_smoke
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OR
http://tinyurl.com/3cug3q
[Steve's note: Perhaps the most sane literature review of the effects
of second hand smoke out there. Worth reading for an example for
students as the *right* way to gather evidence.]
The question of whether second hand smoke (SHS) causes lung cancer or
other health problems in people exposed to it on a chronic basis is a
tough one to examine epidemiologically because, as with most studies
of exposures, it's difficult to control for other factors. It's not
like studying smoking as a cause for cancer, where it's relatively
easy to examine the exposure. More importantly, whatever the effect of
SHS may be, we can, based on the simple principle of dose-response,
expect that it would produce considerably less profund of an effect
than smoking itself, given the obvious difference between inhaling
someone else's smoke at a bar and inhaling 10-30 cigarettes a day over
the course of many years. Moreover, it should be remembered that the
science behind whether SHS is a health risk is a distinct from the
policy question of what we should do about it as far as indoor smoking
bans go. Finally, when millions of people are exposed, small increased
risks can lead to many, many additional cases of smoking-caused
disease.
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